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.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise_linux | Redhat | 3.0 (including) | 3.0 (including) |
| Enterprise_linux | Redhat | 4.0 (including) | 4.0 (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | RedHat | vsftpd-0:1.2.1-3E.16 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | RedHat | vsftpd-0:2.0.1-6.el4 | * |
References
- 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.oval%3Adef%3A10138
- 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.oval%3Adef%3A10138