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CVE-2008-2375

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

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.

HIGH · CVSS 7.1 EPSS 0.04207
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  • Public exploit or PoC is available
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules1 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

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redhat vsftpdall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocbugzilla.redhat.com · attachment.cgi?id=201051bugzilla.redhat.com
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Sigma Hunt Rules

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Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
productmediumSuspicious VSFTPD Error Messages
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Scoring & Timeline

7.1
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Published to NVD09 Jul 2008 · 12:41 AM
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Vendor Advisories

2
rhsaRHSA-2008:0680Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2008:0579Moderate
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
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
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