CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1250

7.8 HIGH Published 2009-04-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-04-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• ibm afs (<= 3.6) • ibm afs 3.6 • openafs openafs 1.0 • openafs openafs 1.0.1 • openafs openafs 1.0.2 • openafs openafs 1.0.3 • openafs openafs 1.0.4 • openafs openafs 1.0.4a • openafs openafs 1.1 • openafs openafs 1.1.0 • openafs openafs 1.1.1 • openafs openafs 1.1.1a • openafs openafs 1.2 • openafs openafs 1.2.1 • openafs openafs 1.2.2 • openafs openafs 1.2.2a • openafs openafs 1.2.2b • openafs openafs 1.2.3 • openafs openafs 1.2.4 • openafs openafs 1.2.5 • openafs openafs 1.2.6 • openafs openafs 1.2.7 • openafs openafs 1.2.8 • openafs openafs 1.2.9 • openafs openafs 1.2.10 • openafs openafs 1.2.11 • openafs openafs 1.2.13 • openafs openafs 1.3 • openafs openafs 1.3.1 • openafs openafs 1.3.2 • openafs openafs 1.3.5 • openafs openafs 1.3.70 • openafs openafs 1.3.74 • openafs openafs 1.3.77 • openafs openafs 1.3.81 • openafs openafs 1.4 • openafs openafs 1.4.0 • openafs openafs 1.4.3 • openafs openafs 1.4.4 • openafs openafs 1.4.5 • openafs openafs 1.4.6 • openafs openafs 1.4.7 • openafs openafs 1.4.7 pre1 • openafs openafs 1.4.7 pre2 • openafs openafs 1.4.7 pre3 • openafs openafs 1.4.7 pre4 • openafs openafs 1.4.7 pre5 • openafs openafs 1.4.8 • openafs openafs 1.4.8 pre1 • openafs openafs 1.4.8 pre2 • openafs openafs 1.4.8 pre3 • openafs openafs 1.5 • openafs openafs 1.5.16 • openafs openafs 1.5.17 • openafs openafs 1.5.26 • openafs openafs 1.5.27 • openafs openafs 1.5.30 • openafs openafs 1.5.31 • openafs openafs 1.5.32 • openafs openafs 1.5.33 … and 13 more

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-822 Untrusted Pointer Dereference weakness

References