VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2008-2375
CVSS score7.1 HIGH
EPSS probability3.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-07-09
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.