CVE-2011-1479

Description

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.

References

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

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3