CVE-2007-5962

Summary

CVECVE-2007-5962
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-05-22 13:09:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-13 02:18:00 UTC
DescriptionMemory 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Foresight Linux Appliances All All All All
Hardware Foresight Linux Appliances All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 7 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 8 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 7 All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 8 All All All
Hardware Rpath Appliance Platform Agent All All All All
Hardware Rpath Appliance Platform Agent All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
vsftpd FTP Server 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Exploit
wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185 CONFIRM wiki.rpath.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
CVE-2007-5962 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: vsftpd-2.0.5-20.fc8 FEDORA www.redhat.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
oss-security - vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) MLIST www.openwall.com
Fedora update for vsftpd - Advisories - Community SECUNIA secunia.com
vsftpd 2.0.5 (CWD) Remote Memory Consumption Exploit (post auth) EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com
oss-security - Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) MLIST www.openwall.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - vsftpd Memory Leak in 'deny_file' Option Lets Remote Authenticated Users Deny Service SECTRACK securitytracker.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: vsftpd-2.0.5-17.fc7 FEDORA www.redhat.com
oss-security - Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: vsftpd-2.0.6-4.fc9 FEDORA www.redhat.com
Red Hat update for vsftpd - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
rhn.redhat.com | Red Hat Support REDHAT www.redhat.com Patch
Bug 397011 – CVE-2007-5962 vsftpd: memory leak when deny_file option is set CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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