CVE-2011-1479

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 (10)

• secalert@redhathttp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
• secalert@redhathttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc
• secalert@redhathttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793
• secalert@redhathttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc