CVE-2008-2375 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2375
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Description: Memory leak in a certain Red Hat deployment of vsftpd before 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 and 4, when PAM is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of invalid authentication attempts within the same session, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5962.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: ST 1020546 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA31007 Secunia Advisory: SA31223 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2 CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded BID 30364

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