CVE-2017-17432

high

Published 2017-12-06 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

OpenAFS 1.x before 1.6.22 does not properly validate Rx ack packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash or application crash) via crafted fields, as demonstrated by an integer underflow and assertion failure for a small MTU value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

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

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	8.0	affected
debian	9.0	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.6.22-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.6.22-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.6.22-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.6.22-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openafs	openafs	`{"startIncluding":"1.0","endExcluding":"1.6.22"}`	`1.6.22`

References

CWEs

CWE-617

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

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