CVE-2008-2944 Information

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.

Reference

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556