CVE-2008-2944

mediumpriority · track · 20EPSS 0.004 · 37 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.43% (37th) EPSS

CVSS 4.9 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.9mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 6.9

v2.04.2mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-415USprimary

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
fedoraproject fedora core= 6nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linux linux kernel= 2.6.18nvdUScpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-06-30modified 2026-06-16

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002 enisa_euvd
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359 enisa_euvd
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556 enisa_euvd
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002Issue TrackingVendor Advisorynvd
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd

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