CVE-2007-0001: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The file watch implementation in the audit subsystem (auditctl -w) in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 kernel 2.6.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by replacing a watched file, which does not cause the watch on the old inode to be dropped.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only

Published 2007-03-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.