CVE-2011-1479

4.7

MEDIUMCVSS v2

Published

June 21, 2012

Affected

1 project

Assigned by

Red Hat

Severity scale

010

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

GitHubLinux kernel source tree

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CVE-2011-1479

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