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TITLE:
Red Hat update for vsftpd

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31223

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31223/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3
http://secunia.com/product/2535/
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3
http://secunia.com/product/2534/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to a memory leak when using PAM and
can be exploited to exhaust all available memory via multiple invalid
authentication requests.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
http://rhn.redhat.com

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html

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