CVE-2007-5494
First published: Tue Oct 02 2007(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =4.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux | =5.0 | |
| redhat/kernel | <0:2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 | 0:2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0993.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019017
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27824
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28162
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26657
- http://osvdb.org/44153
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38823
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10884
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=313681
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5494
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5494 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5494
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:1104
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0993
- https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2007-5494.json
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