PT-2016-3885 · Openafs · Openafs

Published 2016-05-05 · Updated 2018-05-17 · CVE-2015-8312

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenAFS versions prior to 1.6.16

Description The issue is caused by an off-by-one error in the afs pioctl.c file, which can be exploited by local users to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved by using a pioctl with an input buffer size of 4096 bytes, potentially leading to a memory overwrite and system crash.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.6.16, update to version 1.6.16 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8312

DLA-493-1

DSA-3569-1

Affected Products

Openafs

References · 16

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8312 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8312 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8312 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8312 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3569-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2860 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8312 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3569-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-8312 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8312 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8312 · Vendor Advisory
• https://openafs.org/dl/1.6.16/RELNOTES-1.6.16 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/openafs · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3569 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.debian.org/src:openafs · Note