CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-5962
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
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.
Affected configurations
• redhat enterprise linux 5.0
• redhat fedora 6
• redhat fedora 7
• redhat fedora 8
• foresight linux appliances
• rpath appliance platform agent
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30341 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30354 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079 securitytracker.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8850 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00699.html www.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30341 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30354 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079 securitytracker.com
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185 wiki.rpath.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600 www.vupen.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8850 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00699.html www.redhat.com