GLSA 200801-04: OpenAFS: Denial of Service
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | OpenAFS: Denial of Service |
| Date: | 01/09/2008 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 200801-04 |
Synopsis
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in OpenAFS.Background
OpenAFS is a distributed network filesystem.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| net-fs/openafs | < 1.4.6 | >= 1.4.6 | All supported architectures |
Description
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.
Resolution
All OpenAFS users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/openafs-1.4.6"
References
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
Concerns?
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License
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