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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…
High7.1EPSS 3.7%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (15)
- ADV-2008-2820 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 30364 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0680 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10138 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=201051 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0579 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-398.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31223 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0217 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31007 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2640 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1020546 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 32263 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20080708 rPSA-2008-0217-1 vsftpd (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080630 CVE-2008-2375 older vsftpd authentication memory leak (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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