Security Advisory

CVE-2008-2375

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-07-09 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 08:58:02
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.