CVE-2007-5962
Fixed in a distro release EPSS 12%
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.
Products: redhat enterprise_linux, redhat fedora
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | vsftpd | 0:2.0.5-12.el5 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | vsftpd-debuginfo | 0:2.0.5-12.el5 |