CVE-2004-2259
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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.07% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-07-19 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 01:22Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-07-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 97c5e36f78dee0bcb5f2b3ab13b8b64f84aa1a8346371e0f845a04a6916f3cdd
05 Affected products
06 References
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:11049https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11049
- secunia.com11680http://secunia.com/advisories/11680
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119136
- rhn.redhat.comRHBA-2004-164http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-164.html
- www.securityfocus.com10394http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10394
- www.osvdb.org6306http://www.osvdb.org/6306
- secunia.com11736http://secunia.com/advisories/11736
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comvsftpd-connection-dos(16222)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16222
- vsftpd.beasts.orgftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.2.2/Changelog
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- vsftpd Fixed in 2.0.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- vsftpd Fixed in 2.0.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- vsftpd Fixed in 2.0.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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