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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2007-5494 json

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…

published 2007-11-30 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-5469

cvss
4.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 33%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • kernel RHEL 4 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
  • kernel-smp RHEL 4 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
  • kernel-xenU RHEL 4 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
  • kernel-hugemem RHEL 4 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
  • kernel-largesmp RHEL 4 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
  • kernel RHEL 5 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
  • kernel-PAE RHEL 5 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
  • kernel-xen RHEL 5 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:1104RHSA-2007:0993

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-5494 updated

open(O_ATOMICLOOKUP) leaks dentry

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5, kernel-PAE 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5, kernel-xen 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5, kernel-kdump 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5, kernel-debuginfo-common 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0993
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 kernel 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-smp 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-xenU 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-largesmp 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:1104
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5, kernel-PAE 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5, kernel-xen 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5, kernel-kdump 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5, kernel-debuginfo-common 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0993
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 kernel 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-smp 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-xenU 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-largesmp 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 kernel 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-smp 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-xenU 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-largesmp 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 kernel 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-smp 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-xenU 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-hugemem 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL, kernel-largesmp 2.6.9-67.0.1.EL
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:1104

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Exploit prediction

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 33% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.