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CVE-2008-2375 json

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 rem…

published 2008-07-09 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2370

cvss
7.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • vsftpd RHEL 4 2.0.1-6.el4
  • vsftpd RHEL 3 1.2.1-3E.16

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0680RHSA-2008:0579

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-2375 updated

older vsftpd authentication memory leak

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 vsftpd 1.2.1-3E.16
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0579
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 vsftpd 2.0.1-6.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0680
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 vsftpd 1.2.1-3E.16
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0579
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 vsftpd 2.0.1-6.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0680

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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