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.
Published 2008-05-22 13:09:00
Updated 2023-02-13 02:18:36
Source Red Hat, Inc.
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Denial of service

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-5962

Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days: 5.69%

Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less: ~ 93 % EPSS Score History EPSS FAQ

CVSS scores for CVE-2007-5962

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source
7.1
HIGH AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
8.6
6.9
NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2007-5962

  • Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2007-5962

Products affected by CVE-2007-5962

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