PT-2007-6526 · Red Hat · Red Hat

Published

2007-11-29

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Updated

2017-09-29

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CVE-2007-5494

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 4 and 5
Description: A memory leak in the Red Hat Content Accelerator kernel patch allows local users to cause a denial of service due to memory consumption. This can be achieved by making a large number of open requests involving O ATOMICLOOKUP.
Recommendations: For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 4, apply the necessary kernel patch to fix the memory leak issue. For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 5, apply the necessary kernel patch to fix the memory leak issue.

Fix

DoS

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-5494
RHSA-2007:0993
RHSA-2007:1104
RHSA-2007_0993
RHSA-2007_1104

Affected Products

Red Hat