Unscored severity · published May 22, 2008
CVE-2007-5962
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…
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CVSS
12.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)12.1% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AP
Appliance Platform Agent · Rpath
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
AP
Appliances · Foresight Linux
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
5.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Redhat
6; 7; 8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5962
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5962
secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
secunia.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
securitytracker.com
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
wiki.rpath.com
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12