CVE-2008-2375 in vsftpd

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 05/21/2008
• Disclosure: 07/08/2008
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-43110 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.5
• EPSS: 0.04207
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2375
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2375
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2008-2375/