Security Advisory

CVE-2007-0001

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-02-28 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 12:03:36
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.