Vulnerability CVE-2008-2375
Published: 2008-07-08   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.1/10
6.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Redhat -> Vsftpd 

 References:
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
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138
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