CVE-2007-5494

CVE-2007-5494 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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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