CVE-2007-5494: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 4.0 only; version 5.0 only

Published 2007-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.