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CVE-2011-1479

CVE information

Published

11 years ago

Last Modified

5 months ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4.7/10
Exploit Score
3.4/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38:rc8:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.38.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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