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Package : openafs
Date : December 8, 2009
Affected: 2008.0
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Problem Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in openafs:
The cache manager in the client in OpenAFS 1.0 through 1.4.8 and
1.5.0 through 1.5.58 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 (CVE-2009-1250).
Heap-based buffer overflow in the cache manager in the client in
OpenAFS 1.0 through 1.4.8 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.58 on Unix platforms
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash)
or possibly execute arbitrary code via an RX response containing
more data than specified in a request, related to use of XDR arrays
(CVE-2009-1251).
The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
Update:
Packages for 2008.0 are being provided due to extended support for
Corporate products.
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-1250
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-1251
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