CVE-2008-2944

Priority
Low
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.
References
Notes
kees> this is utrace only, which is not yet upstream, and not in Ubuntu
Package
Upstream:not-affected
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron):DNE
Package
Upstream:not-affected
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron):DNE
Package
Upstream:not-affected
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron):DNE
Package
Source: linux (LP Ubuntu Debian)
Upstream:not-affected
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron):not-affected
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Updated: 2012-06-01 15:18:54 UTC (commit 5347)