CVE-2008-2375

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

RedHat Vsftpd: 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.0.5, 0.0.6 (+25)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31007
http://secunia.com/advisories/31223
http://secunia.com/advisories/32263
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820

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