VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-2852

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

OpenAFS before 1.6.7 delays the listen thread when an RXS_CheckResponse fails, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (performance degradation) via an invalid packet.

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.

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

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
openafsopenafs{"endIncluding":"1.6.6"}
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

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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