Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel 2.6.18 resource management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel 2.6.18. It has been rated as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in resource management. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2008-2944. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

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). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Unproven

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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03/16/2015 +2450 days 🔍
11/14/2017 +974 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: Bug 449359
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-2944 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-2944
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-42987
X-Force: 43556 - Linux kernel utrace support denial of service

Entryinfo

Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 11/14/2017 13:46
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (49), 11/14/2017 13:46 (3)
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Cache ID: 216:F13:103

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