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 cau...
HighCVSS 7.1
EPSS 12.1%
PoC
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- Proof-of-concept only
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 products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| redhat enterprise linux | = 5.0 | No fix listed |
| redhat fedora | = 6 | No fix listed |
| redhat fedora | = 7 | No fix listed |
| redhat fedora | = 8 | No fix listed |
| foresight linux appliances | All versions | No fix listed |
| rpath appliance platform agent | All versions | No fix listed |
References
- Debian Security Tracker CVE-2007-5962 vendor-advisory
- 30341 third-party-advisory
- 30354 third-party-advisory
- 1020079 vdb-entry
- wiki.rpath.com
- [oss-security] 20080521 Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20080521 Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20080521 vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific) mailing-list
- RHSA-2008:0295 patch vendor-advisory
- 20080606 rPSA-2008-0185-1 vsftpd mailing-list
- 29322 exploit vdb-entry
- ADV-2008-1600 vdb-entry
- bugzilla.redhat.com
- vsftpd-denyfile-dos(42593) vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8850 signature vdb-entry
- 5814 exploit
- FEDORA-2008-4347 vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-4362 vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-4373 vendor-advisory