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FreeBSD : openafs -- Denial of Service (c0c31b27-bff3-11e3-9d09-000c2980a9f3)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73442

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The OpenAFS development team reports :

An attacker with the ability to connect to an OpenAFS fileserver can trigger a buffer overflow, crashing the server.

The buffer overflow can be triggered by sending an unauthenticated request for file server statistical information.

Clients are not affected.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://openafs.org/security/OPENAFS-SA-2014-001.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?ed250742

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73442

File Name: freebsd_pkg_c0c31b27bff311e39d09000c2980a9f3.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 4/10/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:openafs, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 4/9/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/9/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0159