CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-5494

Published: Nov 30, 2007 | Modified: Sep 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
NEGLIGIBLE

Memory leak in the Red Hat Content Accelerator kernel patch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 and 5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of open requests involving O_ATOMICLOOKUP.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Enterprise_linux Redhat 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)
Enterprise_linux Redhat 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.9-67.0.1.EL *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 *

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