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CVE-2007-5962

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
22/05/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.10
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:foresight_linux:appliances:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:h:rpath:appliance_platform_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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