CVE-2007-5962

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…

published May 22, 2008

CVSS
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EPSS
12%
Percentile
96.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.12061 · 96.1th percentile
Published
2008-05-22T10:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 10:00Z
    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…
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