Record summary

CVE-2007-0001 has a selected CVSS score of 4.7; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBLinux Kernel 2.6.x - Audit Subsystems Local Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby Steve GrubbNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

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