Detections
Analytics
CVE-2016-4536
medium
Description
The client in OpenAFS before 1.6.17 does not properly initialize the (1) AFSStoreStatus, (2) AFSStoreVolumeStatus, (3) VldbListByAttributes, and (4) ListAddrByAttributes structures, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by leveraging access to RPC call traffic.
References
https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-002.txt
https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2016/000496.html