CVE-2008-2944

MediumCVSS 4.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Double free vulnerability in the utrace support in the Linux kernel, probably 2.6.18, in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora Core 6 (FC6) allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops), as demonstrated by a crash when running the GNU GDB testsuite, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2365.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.9/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-415

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jun 30, 2008
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2008-2944: Medium severity, CVSS 4.9 | Vulnix