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GLSA-200801-04 : OpenAFS: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 29908

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200801-04 (OpenAFS: Denial of Service)

 Russ Allbery, Jeffrey Altman, Dan Hyde and Thomas Mueller discovered a race condition due to an improper handling of the clients callbacks lists.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could construct cases which trigger the race condition, resulting in a server crash.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All OpenAFS users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-fs/openafs-1.4.6'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200801-04

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 29908

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200801-04.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 1/10/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:openafs, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6599

CWE: 362

GLSA: 200801-04