Information Exposure Affecting openafs package, versions [,1.6.15)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENAFS-2381802
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-7762  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openafs to version 1.6.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure rx/rx.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.15 and 1.7.x before 1.7.33 does not properly initialize the padding of a data structure when constructing 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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