CVE-2007-5962
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 12.1% (96th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5932)
- Published
- May 22, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5932 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- foresight linux / appliances
- redhat / enterprise linux
- redhat / fedora
- redhat / fedora
- redhat / fedora
- rpath / appliance platform agent
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
- 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
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0295.html(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493167/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322(Exploit)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1600
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=397011
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42593
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8850
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5814
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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