cve-2007-5494
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-11-30 02:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:31
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
Impacted products
n/an/a
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