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CVE-2008-2375
Published: Jul 9, 2008
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
ADV-2008-2820
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
30364
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
RHSA-2008:0680
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051
x_refsource_CONFIRM
RHSA-2008:0579
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm
x_refsource_CONFIRM
31223
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217
x_refsource_CONFIRM
31007
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640
x_refsource_CONFIRM
1020546
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
32263
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
20080708 rPSA-2008-0217-1 vsftpd
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
[oss-security] 20080630 CVE-2008-2375 older vsftpd authentication memory leak
mailing-list
x_refsource_MLIST
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