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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-05-22T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:47:00.627Z

Reserved: 2007-11-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-5962

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-05-22T13:09:00.000

Modified: 2023-02-13T02:18:35.720

Link: CVE-2007-5962

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-05-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-5962 - Bugzilla