CVE-2007-5962 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-5962
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42593 ST 1020079 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA30341 Secunia Advisory: SA30354 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10 MILW0RM http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/5814 FEDORA CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded BID 29322

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