CVE-2007-5494 describes a memory leak vulnerability in the Red Hat Content Accelerator kernel patch affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) versions 4 and 5. A local attacker can exploit this by issuing numerous open requests with O_ATOMICLOOKUP, leading to excessive memory consumption and a denial of service. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C), indicating low attack complexity and local access, with a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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