CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel 2.6.18 (Operating System). This affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-399. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:
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.
The weakness was disclosed 06/30/2008 as Bug 449359 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-2944 since 06/30/2008. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (43556).
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.2VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.4
VulDB Base Score: 6.2
VulDB Temp Score: 5.4
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Exploiting
Class: Resource managementCWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Unproven
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
06/30/2008 🔍06/30/2008 🔍
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03/16/2015 🔍
11/14/2017 🔍
Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: Bug 449359
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-2944 (🔍)
X-Force: 43556 - Linux kernel utrace support denial of service
Entry
Created: 03/16/2015 17:00Updated: 11/14/2017 13:46
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (49), 11/14/2017 13:46 (3)
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