oss-security - Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific)

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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 22:23:24 -0800
From: Jonathan Smith <smithj@...ethemallocs.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: chris@...ry.beasts.org
Subject: Re: vsftpd CVE-2007-5962 (Red Hat / Fedora specific)

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Steven M. Christey wrote:
| On Wed, 21 May 2008, Josh Bressers wrote:
|
|> The leak is CVE-2007-5962.  deny_hosts not working did not get a CVE id.
|
| Should it?  If an admin configures deny_hosts in some fashion that vsftpd
| doesn't implement correctly, that might be worthy of a CVE.

I don't think rPath treated it as such when we originally added the
patch, though. It would probably be worth adding it to our other branch
and pushing it upstream as a security issue.

So, yeah, I'd say it needs a CVE. Thanks.

	smithj

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