Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-2375

Title: Redhat Vsftpd Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-2375.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Jul 09, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.21%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-2375: 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.

Impacted Vendors

beasts 1

redhat 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/31007 http://secunia.com/advisories/31223 http://secunia.com/advisories/32263 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138 http://secunia.com/advisories/31007 http://secunia.com/advisories/31223 http://secunia.com/advisories/32263 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0680.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494081/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30364 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020546 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2820 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-2375 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 09, 2008 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.