CVE-2007-5962
Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a…
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Description
Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of CWD commands, as demonstrated by an attack on a daemon with the deny_file configuration option.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.1 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- EPSS
- 12.06% probability · 96th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- redhat/enterprise linux · redhat/fedora · foresight linux/appliances · rpath/appliance platform agent
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.htmlPatch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8850
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00699.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.htmlPatch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.