CVE-2011-1479

Published June 21st, 2012

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

4.7

MEDIUM

Affected

PROJECT

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.

torvalds/linux

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