Vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux

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.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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