CVE-2004-2259

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

vsftpd before 1.2.2, when under heavy load, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a SIGCHLD signal during a malloc or free call, which is not re-entrant.

Affected products

Beasts Vsftpd: 1.2.0, 1.2.1

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119136
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-164.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/11680
http://secunia.com/advisories/11736
http://www.osvdb.org/6306
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10394
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16222
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11049
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119136
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-164.html

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