CVE-2008-2375

Summary

CVECVE-2008-2375
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-07-09 00:41:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionMemory leak in a certain Red Hat deployment of vsftpd before 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 and 4, when PAM is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of invalid authentication attempts within the same session, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5962.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.1 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-399 | NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.0 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.1 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.10 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.11 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.12 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.13 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.14 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.15 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.2 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.3 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.4 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.5 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.6 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.7 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.8 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.0.9 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.9.0 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.9.1 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.9.2 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 0.9.3 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 1.1.0 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 1.1.1 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 1.1.2 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 1.1.3 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 1.2.0 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 1.2.1 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 1.2.2 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 2.0.0 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 2.0.1 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 2.0.2 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 2.0.3 All All All
Application Redhat Vsftpd 2.0.4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat update for vsftpd - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit
ASA-2008-398 (RHSA-2008-0680) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.avaya.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
vsftpd Memory Leak When Invalid Authentication Attempts Occur Lets Remote Authenticated Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
vsftpd FTP Server Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Avaya Products vsftpd PAM Memory Leak Vulnerability - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
oss-security - CVE-2008-2375 older vsftpd authentication memory leak af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
rPath update for vsftpd - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal MITRE access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com | CVE-2008-2375 MITRE access.redhat.com
453376 – (CVE-2008-2375) CVE-2008-2375 older vsftpd authentication memory leak MITRE 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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