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    CVE-2008-2944

    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.

    Published:Sep 18, 2006
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Jun 30, 2008
    EPSS Score:0.00059
    CVSS Score:4.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora Core
    Vendor
    Linux
    Product
    Linux Kernel
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux

    Exploits

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-415 Double Free

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High