CVE-2004-2259 - Uncompensated Crosses

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.

Reference

ftp://vsftpd.beasts.org/users/cevans/untar/vsftpd-1.2.2/Changelog http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119136 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-164.html http://www.osvdb.org/6306 http://secunia.com/advisories/11680 http://secunia.com/advisories/11736 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10394 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16222 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11049