CVE-2008-2375
7.1 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.087 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.5%
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 configurations
References
secunia.com/advisories/31007
secunia.com/advisories/31223
secunia.com/advisories/32263
support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364
www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820
bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138
Related
7.1 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
0.087 Low
EPSS
Percentile
94.5%