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CVE-2015-6587

The vlserver in OpenAFS before 1.6.13 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read

The vlserver in OpenAFS before 1.6.13 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted regular expression in a VL_ListAttributesN2 RPC.

MEDIUM · CVSS 4 EPSS 0.00625
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Weakness Classification

CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
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Affected Products & Versions

2
openafs<= 1.6.12
debian linuxall versions
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Scoring & Timeline

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD02 Sep 2015 · 10:59 AM
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References & Sources

4
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3320
http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2015-006.txtVendor Advisory
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2015/000486.htmlVendor Advisory
https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.13/RELNOTES-1.6.13
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