{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2008-05-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "vsftpd: memory leak when deny_file option is set",
    "id" : "397011",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-401",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-05-21T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0295",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "vsftpd-0:2.0.5-12.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5962\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5962" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2007-5962",
  "csaw" : false
}