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title: "CVE-2008-2944\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2008-2944

Publication date 30 June 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Low**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-2944?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| linux | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not affected |
| 7.10 gutsy | Not in release |
| 7.04 feisty | Not in release |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release |
| linux-source-2.6.15 | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |
| 7.10 gutsy | Not in release |
| 7.04 feisty | Not in release |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not affected |
| linux-source-2.6.20 | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |
| 7.10 gutsy | Not in release |
| 7.04 feisty | Not affected |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release |
| linux-source-2.6.22 | 8.04 LTS hardy | Not in release |
| 7.10 gutsy | Not affected |
| 7.04 feisty | Not in release |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Not in release |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [kees](https://launchpad.net/~kees)

this is utrace only, which is not yet upstream, and not in Ubuntu

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2944)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2944)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2008-2944)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2944)

### Other references

* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2944>