CVE-2008-0608

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The Logging Server (ftplogsrv.exe) 7.9.14.0 and earlier in IPSwitch WS_FTP 6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of responsiveness) via a large number of large packets to port 5151/udp, which causes the listening socket to terminate and prevents log commands from being recorded, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3823.

Affected products

Ipswitch Ws Ftp: 6.1

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ftplogsrvz-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/28761
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487506/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27612
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0408
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ftplogsrvz-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/28761
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487506/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27612
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0408

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