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CVE-2011-1479

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Date: June 21, 2012

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.

Language: C

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Related Resources (9)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1479
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1479
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-1479
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1479

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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