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CVE-2007-6599 (GCVE-0-2007-6599)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-04 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:11
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/s… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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http://secunia.com/advisories/28433 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1458 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0046 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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Date Public
2007-12-20 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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