CVE-2007-5962: Foresight Linux Appliances

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 12.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Foresight Linux Appliances
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5.0 only
• Red Hat Fedora: version 6 only; version 7 only; version 8 only
• Rpath Appliance Platform Agent

Published 2008-05-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.