gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200801-04.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200801-04">
  <title>OpenAFS: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in OpenAFS.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">openafs</product>
  <announced>January 09, 2008</announced>
  <revised>January 09, 2008: 01</revised>
  <bug>203573</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-fs/openafs" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.4.6</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    OpenAFS is a distributed network filesystem.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Russ Allbery, Jeffrey Altman, Dan Hyde and Thomas Mueller discovered a
    race condition due to an improper handling of the clients callbacks
    lists.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could construct cases which trigger the race
    condition, resulting in a server crash.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All OpenAFS users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-fs/openafs-1.4.6&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6599">CVE-2007-6599</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:13:45 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:35:12 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:35:21 +0000">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>