Headline
CVE-2008-2944: 207002 – crash - mmput()/unmap_vmas()
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.
Bug 207002 - crash - mmput()/unmap_vmas() - gdb testsuite
Summary: crash - mmput()/unmap_vmas() - gdb testsuite
Keywords:
Status:
CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias:
None
Product:
Fedora
Classification:
Fedora
Component:
kernel
Sub Component:
Version:
6
Hardware:
All
OS:
Linux
Priority:
medium
Severity:
high
Target Milestone:
—
Assignee:
Roland McGrath
QA Contact:
Brian Brock
Docs Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
bzcl34nup
Depends On:
Blocks:
209118 213554 216451 218108 CVE-2008-2944
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depends on / blocked
Reported:
2006-09-18 18:00 UTC by Jan Kratochvil
Modified:
2008-07-07 05:51 UTC (History)
CC List:
10 users (show)
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:
Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:
2008-05-06 16:21:57 UTC
Type:
—
Dependent Products:
Attachments
(Terms of Use)
oops log - Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b (8.72 KB, text/plain)
2006-09-18 18:00 UTC, Jan Kratochvil
no flags
Details
Enable full debugging, should be obsoleted by Bug 205179 (549 bytes, patch)
2006-09-18 18:01 UTC, Jan Kratochvil
no flags
Details | Diff
kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.rm3.fc6.ia64 oops log (9.50 KB, text/plain)
2006-10-28 10:58 UTC, Jan Kratochvil
no flags
Details
utrace_get_signal() oops reproducer (1.54 KB, text/plain)
2007-07-24 12:09 UTC, Alexey Dobriyan
no flags
Details
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