diff --git a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
index 305f316e34..571b23cb47 100644
--- a/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
+++ b/phpBB/docs/CHANGELOG.html
@@ -289,6 +289,8 @@ p a {
 		<li>[Fix] MS SQL DBAL drivers now write over extension limitations, they are too low for most installations (Bug #12415)</li>
 		<li>[Fix] Fix sorting by author on "unanswered posts" (Bug #12545)</li>
 		<li>[Fix] Allow searching for multibyte authors (Bug #11793)</li>
+		<li>[Fix] Writing directories/files with correct permissions using FTP for transfers on PHP4</li>
+
 	</ul>
 
 	</div>
diff --git a/phpBB/includes/functions_transfer.php b/phpBB/includes/functions_transfer.php
index 51a7fa8bb7..2a38c8c7ad 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/functions_transfer.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/functions_transfer.php
@@ -382,7 +382,9 @@ class ftp extends transfer
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			$chmod_cmd = 'CHMOD ' . $perms . ' ' . $file;
+			// Unfortunatly CHMOD is not expecting an octal value...
+			// We need to transform the integer (which was an octal) to an octal representation (to get the int) and then pass as is. ;)
+			$chmod_cmd = 'CHMOD ' . base_convert($perms, 10, 8) . ' ' . $file;
 			$err = $this->_site($chmod_cmd);
 		}
 
@@ -605,7 +607,9 @@ class ftp_fsock extends transfer
 	*/
 	function _chmod($file, $perms)
 	{
-		return $this->_send_command('SITE CHMOD', $perms . ' ' . $file);
+		// Unfortunatly CHMOD is not expecting an octal value...
+		// We need to transform the integer (which was an octal) to an octal representation (to get the int) and then pass as is. ;)
+		return $this->_send_command('SITE CHMOD', base_convert($perms, 10, 8) . ' ' . $file);
 	}
 
 	/**