CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5494
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
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 configurations
• redhat enterprise linux 4.0
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/44153 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27824 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28162 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0993.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26657 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019017 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38823 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10884 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://osvdb.org/44153 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27824 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28162 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0993.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26657 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019017 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38823 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10884 oval.cisecurity.org