CVE-2007-5494 Information

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.

Reference

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/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10884