National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3961
Original release date:07/25/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Off-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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
Solution
Vendor has supplied upgrade patch: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93841&package_id=139615&release_id=526638}
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/10/2007)
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Red Hat does not consider a user assisted client crash such as this to be a security flaw.
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External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26184
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 38568
External Source: MISC
Name: http://fsp.cvs.sourceforge.net/fsp/fsplib/fsplib.c?r1=1.19&r2=1.20
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://fsp.cvs.sourceforge.net/fsp/fsplib/ChangeLog?revision=1.17&view=markup
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:018
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200711-01
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27501
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26378
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188252