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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
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Updated: 2024-08-07T15:47:00.627Z
Reserved: 2007-11-14T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-5962
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2008-05-22T13:09:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2007-5962
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