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openafs: denial of service

Package(s):openafs CVE #(s):CVE-2007-6599
Created:January 10, 2008 Updated:January 25, 2008
Description: From the Gentoo advisory: Russ Allbery, Jeffrey Altman, Dan Hyde and Thomas Mueller discovered a race condition due to an improper handling of the clients callbacks lists. A remote attacker could construct cases which trigger the race condition, resulting in a server crash.
Alerts:
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:002 2008-01-25
Debian DSA-1458-1 2008-01-10
Gentoo 200801-04 2008-01-09
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