CVE-2008-2375

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-06-28
CWE:
CWE-401
Bugzilla:
453376: CVE-2008-2375 older vsftpd authentication memory leak

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2375 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (vsftpd) RHSA-2008:0579 2008-07-24
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (vsftpd) RHSA-2008:0680 2008-07-24

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