CVE-2011-1479

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.8%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJun 21

1st PoCApr 11

exploitation probability

0.8%top 47% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35600

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References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1