CVE-2007-5494

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0, 5.0

References

http://osvdb.org/44153
http://secunia.com/advisories/27824
http://secunia.com/advisories/28162
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0993.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1104.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26657
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019017
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38823
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10884
http://osvdb.org/44153
http://secunia.com/advisories/27824

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