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CVE-2011-1479

CVE-2011-1479

EPSS 0.8%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fchttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fchttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1