CVE-2011-1479

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.38.8; 2.6.38, 2.6.38-rc1, 2.6.38-rc2, 2.6.38-rc3, 2.6.38-rc4, 2.6.38-rc5 (+10)

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
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc
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
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc

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