CVE-2009-1250

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    CVE-2009-1250

    Published: 9 Apr 2009Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The cache manager in the client in OpenAFS 1.0 through 1.4.8 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.58, and IBM AFS 3.6 before Patch 19, on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an RX response with a large error-code value that is interpreted as a pointer and dereferenced, related to use of the ERR_PTR macro.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/34655, http://secunia.com/advisories/34684, http://secunia.com/advisories/36310, http://secunia.com/advisories/42896, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-05.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1768, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:099, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0984, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0117, http://www.openafs.org/security/openafs-sa-2009-002.patch, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21396389, http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1ID71123, http://www.openafs.org/security/OPENAFS-SA-2009-002.txt, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34404

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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