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.
Published: 2008-07-09
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: 4.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-2370 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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Redhat Enterprise Linux Vsftpd
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:58:02.466Z

Reserved: 2008-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-2375

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-07-09T00:41:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-2375

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2006-06-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2375 - Bugzilla

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