CVE-2008-2375 Information

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.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/31007 http://secunia.com/advisories/31223 http://secunia.com/advisories/32263 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10138