CVE-2017-17432

HIGH

OpenAFS 1.0-1.6.21 - Denial of Service via Rx Ack Packet Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.debian.org/883602
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4067
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00016.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0305
EPSS Percentile 85.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-617
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
openafs/openafs 1.0 - 1.6.22
Published Dec 06, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026