{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2007-11-29T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "open(O_ATOMICLOOKUP) leaks dentry",
    "id" : "315051",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=315051"
  },
  "details" : [ "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_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2007-12-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2007:1104",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-67.0.1.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2007-11-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2007:0993",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.4.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5494\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5494" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2007-5494",
  "csaw" : false
}