CVE-2007-5962
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 22, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 14, 2007
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
- FEDORA-2008-4347vendor-advisory
- 30341third-party-advisory
- 5814exploit
- 30354third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2008:0295vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-4362vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20080521 Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific)mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011
- vsftpd-denyfile-dos(42593)vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2008-4373vendor-advisory
- ADV-2008-1600vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20080521 Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific)mailing-list
- 29322vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8850vdb-entrysignature
- [oss-security] 20080521 vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific)mailing-list
- 20080606 rPSA-2008-0185-1 vsftpdmailing-list
- 1020079vdb-entry
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