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CVE-2007-5962

HIGH CVSS: 7.1 Published: 2008-05-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Redhat FedoraForesight Linux AppliancesRedhat Enterprise LinuxRpath Appliance Platform Agent

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References