From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon May 26 2008 - 19:40:04 CDT

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TITLE:
Fedora update for vsftpd

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30354

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30354/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Fedora 7
http://secunia.com/product/15552/
Fedora 8
http://secunia.com/product/16769/
Fedora 9
http://secunia.com/product/18642/

DESCRIPTION:
Fedora has issued an update for vsftpd. This fixes a vulnerability,
which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak error and can be
exploited to exhaust all available memory via specially crafted FTP
data if e.g. the "deny_file" option is set.

NOTE: The vulnerability can be exploited via the "anonymous" account.
It was introduced in a previously applied, distribution specific
patch.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages via the yum utility ("yum update vsftpd").

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00699.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00681.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00691.html

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