VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-0159

medium
Published 2014-04-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Buffer overflow in the GetStatistics64 remote procedure call (RPC) in OpenAFS 1.4.8 before 1.6.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted statsVersion argument.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.6.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.6.7-1
debian debiansidfixed1.6.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.6.7-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
openafsopenafs1.4.8
openafsopenafs1.4.9
openafsopenafs1.4.10
openafsopenafs1.4.11
openafsopenafs1.4.12
openafsopenafs1.4.14
openafsopenafs1.4.14.1
openafsopenafs1.4.15
openafsopenafs1.6.0
openafsopenafs1.6.1
openafsopenafs1.6.2
openafsopenafs1.6.2.1
openafsopenafs1.6.3
openafsopenafs1.6.4
openafsopenafs1.6.5
openafsopenafs1.6.5.1
openafsopenafs1.6.5.2
openafsopenafs1.6.6

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.