CVE-2008-2944: Fedoraproject Fedora Core

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora Core: version 6 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.18 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5.0 only

Published 2008-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.