NVD - CVE-2008-2375

CVE-2008-2375 Detail

Modified

This vulnerability has been modified since it was last analyzed by the NVD. It is awaiting reanalysis which may result in further changes to the information provided.

Description

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.

Source: MITRE
Description Last Modified: 07/08/2008

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.1 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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Hyperlink	Resource
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	Exploit
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10138

References to Check Content

Identifier:: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138
Check System:: http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:: http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)
Insufficient Information (NVD-CWE-noinfo)

Vulnerable software and versions Switch to CPE 2.2

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Change History

3 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2375
NVD Published Date:
07/08/2008
NVD Last Modified:
10/11/2018

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CVE-2008-2375 Detail

Description

Impact

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

References to Check Content

Technical Details

Vulnerable software and versions Switch to CPE 2.2

Change History

CVE Modified by MITRE - 10/11/2018 4:41:12 PM

CVE Modified by MITRE - 9/28/2017 9:31:08 PM

Initial CVE Analysis - 7/9/2008 2:26:00 PM

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