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...
- Published
- May 22, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Evidence observed
- May 21, 2008
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:CModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 96.0%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
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.
Sources
4- CVE-2007-5962Exploit
vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'CWD' (Authenticated) Remote Memory Consumption
Praveen Darshanam · linux · Jun 14, 2008
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