CVE-2007-5962

no score yetEPSS 12%

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.

EPSS: 12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-399
Published: 2008-05-22
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

foresight_linux:appliances
redhat:enterprise_linux
redhat:fedora
rpath:appliance_platform_agent

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/30341
http://secunia.com/advisories/30354
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020079
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0185
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/21/10

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