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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2010-3494)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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. (CVE-2010-3494)

- Tue Oct 26 2010 Silas Sewell <silas at sewell.ch> -     0.5.2-1

    - Update to 0.5.2

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
253237	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2010-3494	Nessus	Misc.	medium
415975	SCA: security update for pyftpdlib (GHSA-hw4g-fhcp-x5mq)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	high
415975	SCA: security update for pyftpdlib (GHSA-hw4g-fhcp-x5mq)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	high
50482	Fedora 12 : pyftpdlib-0.5.2-1.fc12 (2010-16731)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2010-3494

high

Tenable Plugins

medium

high

high

medium