4.7
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-0001

Published: 02/03/2007 Updated: 11/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.7 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 475
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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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redhat enterprise linux 4.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/22737/info The Linux Kernel is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability A local attacker can exploit this issue to crash the kernel Linux kernel versions 26x are vulnerable to this issue 1 auditctl -w /etc/shadow 2 useradd userb ...