CVE-2007-5494

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.9
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Enterprise Linux
PublishedNov 30, 2007
First seenNov 30, 2007

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat enterprise_linux4.0, 5.0—

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