CVE-2007-5001: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Linux kernel before 2.4.21 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via asynchronous input or output on a FIFO special file.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version as_3 only; version es_3 only; version ws_3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 3.0 only

Published 2008-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.