CVE-2007-6599

Description

Race condition in fileserver in OpenAFS 1.3.50 through 1.4.5 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by simultaneously acquiring and giving back file callbacks, which causes the handler for the GiveUpAllCallBacks RPC to perform linked-list operations without the host_glock lock.

Category

4.3
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 1.35% Top 25%
Vendor Advisory novell.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory openafs.org Vendor Advisory openafs.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27132 third party advisory vdb entry
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2007/000220.html vendor advisory mailing list
http://secunia.com/advisories/28401 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28327 third party advisory
http://www.openafs.org/security/OPENAFS-SA-2007-003.txt vendor advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-04.xml third party advisory vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28433 third party advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1458 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:207 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0046 third party advisory vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636 third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2007-6599?
CVE-2007-6599 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2007-6599?
To fix CVE-2007-6599, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2007-6599 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2007-6599 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~1% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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