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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-0001
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CVE-2007-0001

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

ST
  1017705

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA24300

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0085.html

OSVDB
  33031

MISC
  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=223129

BID
  22737


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