debian · CVE-2007-5962

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:16:47 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2007-5962 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (vsftpd), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

Memory leak in a certain Red Hat patch, applied to vsftpd 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and Fedora 6 through 8, and on Foresight Linux and rPath appliances, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of CWD commands, as demonstrated by an attack on a daemon with the deny_file configuration option.

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