Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 30, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026

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.

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Affected products

Fedoraproject/Fedora
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Linux/Kernel2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:-:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Server
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Fedorahosted/Corellm-create
Range: 6
Red Hat/Enterprise Linux Eusllm-fuzzy
Range: 5

Patches

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References

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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