CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2007-5494

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.

4.9 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 6.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

Scope

References
Link Resource
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 Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28162 Vendor Advisory
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
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2007-11-30 02:46

Updated : 2017-09-29 01:29

NVD link : CVE-2007-5494

Mitre link : CVE-2007-5494

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-399