PublicDate: 2008-06-30 21:41:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2008-2944
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 kees> this is utrace only, which is not yet upstream, and not in Ubuntu
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_linux-source-2.6.15:
upstream_linux-source-2.6.15: not-affected
dapper_linux-source-2.6.15: not-affected
feisty_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
gutsy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
hardy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
devel_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE

Patches_linux-source-2.6.20:
upstream_linux-source-2.6.20: not-affected
dapper_linux-source-2.6.20: DNE
feisty_linux-source-2.6.20: not-affected
gutsy_linux-source-2.6.20: DNE
hardy_linux-source-2.6.20: DNE
devel_linux-source-2.6.20: DNE

Patches_linux-source-2.6.22:
upstream_linux-source-2.6.22: not-affected
dapper_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
feisty_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
gutsy_linux-source-2.6.22: not-affected
hardy_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
devel_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE

Patches_linux:
upstream_linux: not-affected
dapper_linux: DNE
feisty_linux: DNE
gutsy_linux: DNE
hardy_linux: not-affected
devel_linux: not-affected