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 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.
Configurations

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AND
OR cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
OR cpe:2.3:h:foresight_linux:appliances:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:rpath:appliance_platform_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

13 Feb 2023, 02:18

Type Values Removed Values Added
Summary CVE-2007-5962 vsftpd: memory leak when deny_file option is set 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.
References
  • {'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5962', 'name': 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5962', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'MISC'}
  • {'url': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0295', 'name': 'https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0295', 'tags': [], 'refsource': 'MISC'}

02 Feb 2023, 19:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
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. CVE-2007-5962 vsftpd: memory leak when deny_file option is set
References
  • (MISC) https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-5962 -
  • (MISC) https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0295 -

Information

Published : 2008-05-22 13:09

Updated : 2023-12-10 10:51


NVD link : CVE-2007-5962

Mitre link : CVE-2007-5962

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2007-5962


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Products Affected

redhat

  • fedora
  • enterprise_linux

foresight_linux

  • appliances

rpath

  • appliance_platform_agent
CWE
CWE-399

Resource Management Errors