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.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise_linux | Redhat | 5.0 (including) | 5.0 (including) |
| Fedora | Redhat | 6 (including) | 6 (including) |
| Fedora | Redhat | 7 (including) | 7 (including) |
| Fedora | Redhat | 8 (including) | 8 (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | RedHat | vsftpd-0:2.0.5-12.el5 | * |