CVE-2015-6587
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.0
Description
The vlserver in OpenAFS before 1.6.13 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted regular expression in a VL_ListAttributesN2 RPC.
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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✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1.6.13-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1.6.13-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1.6.13-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1.6.13-1 |
| debian | 7.0 | affected | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openafs | openafs | {"endIncluding":"1.6.12"} | |
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.