CVE-2007-5494

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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10884

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38823

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

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019017

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26657

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0993.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/28162

http://secunia.com/advisories/27824

http://osvdb.org/44153

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3