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CVE-2008-2944

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.9 EPSS 0.43%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2008-06-30 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.9. It affects Linux. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2008-2944
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.9
EPSS
0.43%
Linux

Original NVD 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.