Red Hat Fedora 6/7/8 resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Fedora 6/7/8. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The bug was discovered 05/21/2008. The weakness was disclosed 05/22/2008 by Martin (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2007-5962 since 11/14/2007. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Shell File. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 32438 (Fedora 7 : vsftpd-2.0.5-17.fc7 (2008-4373)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (42593), Tenable (32438) and Exploit-DB (5814).

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Nessus ID: 32438
Nessus Name: Fedora 7 : vsftpd-2.0.5-17.fc7 (2008-4373)
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OpenVAS ID: 860821
OpenVAS Name: Family Connections argv[1] Parameter Remote Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability
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Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: redhat.com
Researcher: Martin
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-5962 (🔍)
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X-Force: 42593
SecurityTracker: 1020079
Vulnerability Center: 18470 - VsFTPd on RHEL or Fedora Allows Remote Attackers to Cause DoS via Large Number of CWD Commands, Low
SecurityFocus: 29322 - vsftpd FTP Server 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 30341
OSVDB: 45626 - vsftpd - FTP Server 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service Issue
Vupen: ADV-2008-1600

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/16/2015 17:00
Updated: 08/10/2019 17:19
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (74), 08/10/2019 17:19 (14)
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