CVE-2007-5962

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-05-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Foresight Linux Appliances: all versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0
RedHat Fedora: 6, 7, 8
Rpath Appliance Platform Agent: all versions

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011

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