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CVE-2008-2375

HIGH CVSS: 7.1 Published: 2008-07-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Redhat VsftpdRedhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-399, NVD-CWE-noinfo

References