1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200801-04 / openafs |
| Release Date | January 09, 2008 |
| Latest Revision | January 09, 2008: 01 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| net-fs/openafs | < 1.4.6 | >= 1.4.6 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #203573
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in OpenAFS.
OpenAFS is a distributed network filesystem.
Russ Allbery, Jeffrey Altman, Dan Hyde and Thomas Mueller discovered a race condition due to an improper handling of the clients callbacks lists.
A remote attacker could construct cases which trigger the race condition, resulting in a server crash.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All OpenAFS users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/openafs-1.4.6" |