Vulnerability in Foresight Linux Appliances
CVE-2007-5962
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: 0.121 (95.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Foresight_linux Appliances
- Rpath Appliance_platform_agent
- Redhat Enterprise_linux — versions 5.0
- Redhat Fedora — versions 6, 7, 8
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Patch)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2007-5962?
- CVE-2007-5962 is a vulnerability in Foresight Linux Appliances, classified under CWE-399. Published 2008-05-22.
- Is CVE-2007-5962 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.