7.8
CWE
617
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2017-17432

First published: Wed Dec 06 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Openafs Openafs>=1.0<1.6.22
Debian Debian Linux=8.0
Debian Debian Linux=9.0
debian/openafs
1.8.2-1+deb10u1
1.8.6-5
1.8.9-1
1.8.10-1

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