CVE-2008-2944

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2008-2944
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2008-06-30T21:41:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-02-07T19:50:56
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-415 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/415.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.18:-:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359 Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2944
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2944
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 06:33:42 Added to TrackCVE