Vulnerability in IBM Afs
CVE-2009-1250
The cache manager in the client in OpenAFS 1.0 through 1.4.8 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.58, and IBM AFS 3.6 before Patch 19, on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an RX response with a large error-code value that is interpreted as a pointer and dereferenced, related to use of the ERR_PTR macro.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.040 (90.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 90th percentile — 90.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.040 · newest: 0.040 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- IBM Afs — versions 3.6
- Linux Kernel
- Openafs — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0117 (vdb-entry)
- www.openafs.org/security/openafs-sa-2009-002.patch (Exploit)
- www.openafs.org/security/OPENAFS-SA-2009-002.txt
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0984 (vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/34404 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/36310 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/34655 (third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1768 (vendor-advisory)
- www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss (vendor-advisory)