Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-2375 First vendor Publication 2008-07-08
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

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 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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2375

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138
Title: 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.
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-2375
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 31

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-13 Name : SLES10: Security update for vsftpd
File : nvt/sles10_vsftpd.nasl
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for vsftpd
File : nvt/sles9p5034480.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for vsftpd RHSA-2008:0579-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0579-01_vsftpd.nasl
2009-03-06 Name : RedHat Update for vsftpd RHSA-2008:0680-01
File : nvt/gb_RHSA-2008_0680-01_vsftpd.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for vsftpd CESA-2008:0579 centos3 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0579_vsftpd_centos3_i386.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : CentOS Update for vsftpd CESA-2008:0579 centos3 x86_64
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2008_0579_vsftpd_centos3_x86_64.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
46930 Red Hat Linux vsftpd w/ PAM Memory Exhaustion Remote DoS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0579.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20080724_vsftpd_on_SL3_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20080724_vsftpd_on_SL4_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-09-24 Name : The remote SuSE 9 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse9_12192.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-03 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_vsftpd-5388.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-28 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2008-0579.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-25 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0579.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-07-25 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2008-0680.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://secunia.com/advisories/31007
http://secunia.com/advisories/31223
http://secunia.com/advisories/32263
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.ova...
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