CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17432
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
Description
OpenAFS 1.x before 1.6.22 does not properly validate Rx ack packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash or application crash) via crafted fields, as demonstrated by an integer underflow and assertion failure for a small MTU value.
Affected configurations
• openafs openafs (>= 1.0 < 1.6.22)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/883602 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00016.html lists.debian.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4067 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2017-001.txt Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/883602 Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00016.html lists.debian.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4067 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2017-001.txt Vendor Advisory