VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2007-0001

CVSS score4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.60%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2007-03-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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