Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-2259 - Denial of Service vulnerability in Beasts Vsftpd 1.2.0/1.2.1
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
vsftpd before 1.2.2, when under heavy load, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a SIGCHLD signal during a malloc or free call, which is not re-entrant.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
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| Application | 2 |
Oval
| accepted | 2013-04-29T04:11:04.850-04:00 | ||||||||
| class | vulnerability | ||||||||
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| description | vsftpd before 1.2.2, when under heavy load, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a SIGCHLD signal during a malloc or free call, which is not re-entrant. | ||||||||
| family | unix | ||||||||
| id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11049 | ||||||||
| status | accepted | ||||||||
| submitted | 2010-07-09T03:56:16-04:00 | ||||||||
| title | vsftpd before 1.2.2, when under heavy load, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a SIGCHLD signal during a malloc or free call, which is not re-entrant. | ||||||||
| version | 26 |
Redhat
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References
- ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.2.2/Changelog
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119136
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-164.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/11680
- http://secunia.com/advisories/11736
- http://www.osvdb.org/6306
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10394
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16222
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11049