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    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 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.

    Published:May 21, 2008
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:May 22, 2008
    EPSS Score:0.1715
    CVSS Score:7.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Foresight Linux
    Product
    Appliances
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Rpath
    Product
    Appliance Platform Agent

    Exploits

    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814https://github.com/antogit-sys/CVE-2007-5962https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31818https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31819

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    References

    http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
    http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8850
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00699.html
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
    http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
    http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
    http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8850
    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html
    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00699.html

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High