National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2375

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-2820

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020546

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546

External Source: BID

Name: 30364

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080708 rPSA-2008-0217-1 vsftpd

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0680

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0579

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080630 CVE-2008-2375 older vsftpd authentication memory leak

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217

Hyperlink:http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32263

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32263

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31223

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31223

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 31007

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/31007

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138