CVE-2007-5962

Name	CVE-2007-5962
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
vsftpd (PTS)	jessie	3.0.2-17+deb8u1	fixed
	stretch	3.0.3-8	fixed
	buster, bullseye	3.0.3-12	fixed
	bookworm	3.0.3-13	fixed
	sid, trixie	3.0.3-13.1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
vsftpd	source	(unstable)	(not affected)

- vsftpd <not-affected> (Vulnerability in Red Hat-specific patch)