CVE-2007-4574 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 4.7 Published Updated

Local attackers can cause a denial of service in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel on AMD64 and Intel 64 systems via unspecified vectors.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2007-4574?

CVE-2007-4574 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux, published on 23 Oct 2007. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the "stack unwinder fixes" in kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, when running on AMD64 and Intel 64, allows local users to cause a denial of service via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4574?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2007-4574?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-4574 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4574 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Enterprise Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-49q9-mrx4-393q.

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