Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 30, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2008-2944
CVE-2008-2944
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.
Affected products
3- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
3- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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