CVE-2008-2375

Description

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051

http://secunia.com/advisories/31007

http://secunia.com/advisories/31223

http://secunia.com/advisories/32263

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2