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CVE-2007-0001

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-03-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The file watch implementation in the audit subsystem (auditctl -w) in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 kernel 2.6.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by replacing a watched file, which does not cause the watch on the old inode to be dropped.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0

References

• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223129
• http://osvdb.org/33031
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24300
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0085.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22737
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017705
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9560
• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223129
• http://osvdb.org/33031
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24300
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0085.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22737

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