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CVE ID:CVE-2011-1479
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.
Test IDs: None available
Cross References: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1479
[oss-security] 20110411 Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify memory leak
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/11/1
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
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://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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691793
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d0de4dc584ec6aa3b26fffea320a8457827768fc




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