FKIE_CVE-2007-5494

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-11-30 02:46 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:46
Severity
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://osvdb.org/44153
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27824Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28162Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0993.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26657
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019017
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38823
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10884
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/44153
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/27824Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/28162Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0993.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26657
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019017
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38823
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10884
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat enterprise_linux 4.0
redhat enterprise_linux 5.0
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