What is CVE-2008-2944?

CVE-2008-2944 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.9 out of 10. CVE-2008-2944 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2008-2944?

CVE-2008-2944 has a CVSS score of 4.9 out of 10, rated Medium severity. The vector string is AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C.

Is there a patch available for CVE-2008-2944?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2008-2944. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.

Is CVE-2008-2944 actively exploited?

CVE-2008-2944 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

CVE-2008-2944

Medium

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.

Package Linux Kernel

Published 2008-06-30

Last modified 2026-04-23

CVSS version 2.0

Patch available

Awaiting data

CVSS 2.0 score

4.9

out of 10

Medium

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

None

Availability

Vector string

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness type

CWE-415

CVE-2008-2944 is classified as CWE-415

See CWE-415 on MITRE CWE for full details on this weakness type.

References

The following references provide additional information about CVE-2008-2944 including vendor advisories, patch commits, exploit details, and third-party analysis. Links are sourced from the NIST NVD database.

Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=207002

Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359

Exploit Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
Exchange
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43556

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

Details

CVE ID CVE-2008-2944

Severity Medium

CVSS score 4.9 / 10

CVSS version 2.0

Published 2008-06-30

Modified 2026-04-23

KEV No

Patch Awaiting data

Package linux

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2008-2944?

CVE-2008-2944 is a Medium severity Linux kernel vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.9 out of 10 . CVE-2008-2944 has not been confirmed as actively exploited and is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
What is the CVSS score for CVE-2008-2944?

CVE-2008-2944 has a CVSS score of 4.9 out of 10, rated Medium severity (CVSS 2.0). The vector string is AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C.
Is there a patch available for CVE-2008-2944?

No patch is currently available for CVE-2008-2944. Monitor the NIST NVD and your Linux distribution's security advisories for updates.
Is CVE-2008-2944 actively exploited?

No — CVE-2008-2944 has not been confirmed as actively exploited. It is not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.