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CVE-2007-5962 (GCVE-0-2007-5962)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-05-22 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:47
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
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CWE
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