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CVE-2007-5962 in the critical feed json

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 Foresig…

published 2008-05-22 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-5932

cvss
7.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.1%
EPSS 12.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
3
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • vsftpd RHEL 5 2.0.5-12.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0295

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-2007-5962 updated

vsftpd: memory leak when deny_file option is set

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) vsftpd 2.0.5-12.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) vsftpd 2.0.5-12.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0295

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-31819)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

12.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-31819 vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service (2) dos, 2008-05-21
  • EDB-31818 vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'deny_file' Option Remote Denial of Service (1) dos, 2008-05-21
  • EDB-5814 vsftpd 2.0.5 - 'CWD' (Authenticated) Remote Memory Consumption dos, 2008-06-14
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29322 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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