National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3494
Original release date:10/19/2010
Last revised:10/20/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Race condition in the FTPHandler class in ftpserver.py in pyftpdlib before 0.5.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) by establishing and then immediately closing a TCP connection, leading to the accept function having an unexpected value of None for the address, or an ECONNABORTED, EAGAIN, or EWOULDBLOCK error, a related issue to CVE-2010-3492.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugs.python.org/issue6706
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/135108
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100924 Re: CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation in async core is broken => more subcases
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100922 Re: CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation in async core is broken => more subcases
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100910 Re: CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation in async core is broken => more subcases
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100909 CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation in async core is broken => more subcases
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/diff?spec=svn556&r=556&format=side&path=/trunk/pyftpdlib/ftpserver.py
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/detail?r=556
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/source/browse/trunk/HISTORY
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=105
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=104