CVE-2007-5494

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-11-30
Impact:	Important	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2007-1104	2007-12-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-67.0.1.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2007-1104	2007-12-20
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-67.0.1.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2007-1104	2007-12-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2007-0993	2007-11-30