Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-2259

Title: vsftpd SIGCHLD signal DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-2259.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 31, 2004

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.91%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-2259: vsftpd before 1.2.2, when under heavy load, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a SIGCHLD signal during a malloc or free call, which is not re-entrant.

Impacted Vendors

beasts 1

Reference Links

ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.2.2/Changelog http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119136 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-164.html http://secunia.com/advisories/11680 http://secunia.com/advisories/11736 http://www.osvdb.org/6306 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10394 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16222 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11049 ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.2.2/Changelog http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119136 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-164.html http://secunia.com/advisories/11680 http://secunia.com/advisories/11736 http://www.osvdb.org/6306 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10394 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16222 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11049

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-2259 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 2004 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.