CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16949

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-09-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-09-12
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])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenAFS before 1.6.23 and 1.8.x before 1.8.2. Several data types used as RPC input variables were implemented as unbounded array types, limited only by the inherent 32-bit length field to 4 GB. An unauthenticated attacker could send, or claim to send, large input values and consume server resources waiting for those inputs, denying service to other valid connections.

Affected configurations

• openafs openafs (< 1.6.23) • openafs openafs (>= 1.8.0 < 1.8.2) • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References