CVE-2008-2375
Red Hat vsftpd PAM Remote Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability
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.
INFO
Published Date :
July 9, 2008, 12:41 a.m.
Last Modified :
Nov. 21, 2024, 12:46 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
6.9
Exploitability Score :
8.6
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31007 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/31223 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/32263 Added Reference http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm Added Reference http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217 Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2 Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364 Added Reference http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051 Added Reference https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138 -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 13, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Description CVE-2008-2375 older vsftpd authentication memory leak 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. Removed Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0579 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0680 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2375 [No Types Assigned] Removed Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453376 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Feb. 02, 2023
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed 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. CVE-2008-2375 older vsftpd authentication memory leak Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0680 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2375 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=453376 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0579 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Oct. 11, 2018
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
Jul. 09, 2008
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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Exploit Prediction
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8.82 }} -0.47%
score
0.94811
percentile