fkie_cve-2008-2375
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-07-09 00:41
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31007
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31223
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/32263
secalert@redhat.comhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm
secalert@redhat.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051Exploit
secalert@redhat.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/31007
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/31223
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/32263
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat enterprise_linux 3.0
redhat enterprise_linux 4.0
redhat vsftpd 0.0.1
redhat vsftpd 0.0.2
redhat vsftpd 0.0.3
redhat vsftpd 0.0.4
redhat vsftpd 0.0.5
redhat vsftpd 0.0.6
redhat vsftpd 0.0.7
redhat vsftpd 0.0.8
redhat vsftpd 0.0.9
redhat vsftpd 0.0.10
redhat vsftpd 0.0.11
redhat vsftpd 0.0.12
redhat vsftpd 0.0.13
redhat vsftpd 0.0.14
redhat vsftpd 0.0.15
redhat vsftpd 0.9.0
redhat vsftpd 0.9.1
redhat vsftpd 0.9.2
redhat vsftpd 0.9.3
redhat vsftpd 1.1.0
redhat vsftpd 1.1.1
redhat vsftpd 1.1.2
redhat vsftpd 1.1.3
redhat vsftpd 1.2.0
redhat vsftpd 1.2.1
redhat vsftpd 1.2.2
redhat vsftpd 2.0.0
redhat vsftpd 2.0.1
redhat vsftpd 2.0.2
redhat vsftpd 2.0.3
redhat vsftpd 2.0.4


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