Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2007-5962 First vendor Publication 2008-05-22
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2023-02-13

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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5962

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22635
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:22635
Title: ELSA-2008:0295: vsftpd security and bug fix update (Low)
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.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): ELSA-2008:0295-01
CVE-2007-5962
 Version: 6
Platform(s): Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s): vsftpd
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8850
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8850
Title: 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.
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-5962
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Hardware 1
Hardware 1
Os 1
Os 3

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for vsftpd RHSA-2008:0295-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0295-01_vsftpd.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for vsftpd FEDORA-2008-4347
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_4347_vsftpd_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for vsftpd FEDORA-2008-4362
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_4362_vsftpd_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for vsftpd FEDORA-2008-4373
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_4373_vsftpd_fc7.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
45626 vsftpd deny_file Option Crafted FTP Data Remote Memory Exhaustion DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20080521_vsftpd_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-4347.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-4362.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-4373.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-05-22 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0295.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322
BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded
CONFIRM http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011
EXPLOIT-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814
FEDORA https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00699.html
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/12
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/8
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html
SECTRACK http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593

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