Information Exposure Affecting openafs package, versions [,1.6.15)[1.7.0,1.7.33)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.56% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENAFS-2381792
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7763  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openafs to version 1.6.15, 1.7.33 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure rx/rx.c in OpenAFS 1.5.75 through 1.5.78, 1.6.x before 1.6.15, and 1.7.x before 1.7.33 does not properly initialize padding at the end of an Rx acknowledgement (ACK) packet, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by (1) conducting a replay attack or (2) sniffing the network.

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