CVE-2007-5494

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

First reported 17 years ago

2007-11-30 02:46:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

4.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0

5.0

References

44153

27824

Vendor Advisory

28162

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2007:0993

RHSA-2007:1104

26657

1019017

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051

rhel-content-accelerator-dos(38823)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10884

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