CVE-2004-2259

Vulnerability CVE-2004-2259 affects vsftpd before 1.2.2. Under heavy load, a SIGCHLD signal during malloc/free (non-reentrant) can cause the FTP daemon to crash, producing a denial of service. Multiple connected sources confirm a signal-handling bug where unsafe operations in signal handlers coul...

CVE-2004-2259

vsftpd before 1.2.2, when under heavy load, allows attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a SIGCHLD signal during a malloc or free call, which is not re-entrant...