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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2007-02-28T00:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-07T12:03:36.377Z
Reserved: 2006-12-19T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-0001
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2007-03-02T21:18:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2007-0001