CVE-2011-1479

medium

Published 2012-06-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.7

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-35600 dos linux verified

anonymous · 2011-04-11

Linux Kernel 2.6.x - 'inotify_init1()' Double-Free Local Denial of Service

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OS impact

Linux kernel Affected 9 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
2.6.38.7	Affected	—
2.6.38.6	Affected	—
2.6.38.5	Affected	—
2.6.38.4	Affected	—
2.6.38.3	Affected	—
2.6.38.2	Affected	—
2.6.38.1	Affected	—
2.6.38	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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