CVE-2009-1250

Publication date 9 April 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

The cache manager in the client in OpenAFS 1.0 through 1.4.8 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.58, and IBM AFS 3.6 before Patch 19, 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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openafs	8.10 intrepid	Fixed 1.4.7.dfsg1-6+ubuntu0.1
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 1.4.6.dfsg1-2+ubuntu0.1
	7.10 gutsy	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	6.06 LTS dapper	Fixed 1.4.1-2+ubuntu0.1

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Patch details

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
openafs	Upstream: http://www.openafs.org/security/openafs-sa-2009-002.patch

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://www.openafs.org/security/OPENAFS-SA-2009-002.txt
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1250