CVE-2007-3961

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-3961
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-07-25 17:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionOff-by-one error in the fsp_readdir_r function in fsplib.c in fsplib before 0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a directory entry whose length is exactly MAXNAMELEN, which prevents a terminating null byte from being added.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fsp C Library All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:018 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
gFTP Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
fsplib Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
CVS Info for project fsp af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 fsp.cvs.sourceforge.net
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- gFTP: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
osvdb.org/38568 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
CVS Info for project fsp af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 fsp.cvs.sourceforge.net
Gentoo Bug 188252 - net-ftp/gftp < 2.0.18-r6 uses vulnerable fsplib code (CVE-2007-3961, CVE-2007-3962) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
Gentoo update for gftp - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2007-08-10Mark J CoxRed Hat does not consider a user assisted client crash such as this to be a security flaw.

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