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.

• CWE-415

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Published

Jun 30, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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