Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2004-2259 First vendor Publication 2004-12-31
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-10-11

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2259

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11049
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11049
Title: 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.
Description: 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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2004-2259
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
6306 vsftpd Connection Handling DoS

vsftpd contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered due to an error within the connection handling, which could cause the builtin listener to hang or crash under heavy connect/disconnect loads, resulting in a loss of availability for the ftp server.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2017-10-10 vsFTPd denial of service attempt
RuleID : 44324 - Revision : 2 - Type : POLICY-OTHER
2014-01-10 vsFTPd denial of service attempt
RuleID : 21445 - Revision : 6 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10394
CONFIRM ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.2.2/Changelog
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119136
OSVDB http://www.osvdb.org/6306
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
REDHAT http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-164.html
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/11680
http://secunia.com/advisories/11736
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16222

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