CVE-2011-1479

Severity

47%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

115%

Double free vulnerability in the inotify subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-4250.

Double free vulnerability in the inotify subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-4250.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-06-21 23:55:00

Last updated 12 years ago

2012-06-22 04:00:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.38

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 1

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 2

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 3

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 4

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 5

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 6

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 7

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38 Release Candidate 8

2.6.38

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.1

2.6.38.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.2

2.6.38.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.3

2.6.38.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.4

2.6.38.4

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.5

2.6.38.5

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.6

2.6.38.6

Linux Kernel 2.6.38.7

2.6.38.7

Linux Kernel

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc

Patch

[oss-security] 20110411 Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify memory leak

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc

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