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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703569
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3569-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'openafs' package(s) announced via the DSA-3569-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'openafs' package(s) announced via the DSA-3569-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in openafs, an implementation of the distributed filesystem AFS. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

CVE-2015-8312

Potential denial of service caused by a bug in the pioctl logic allowing a local user to overrun a kernel buffer with a single NUL byte.

CVE-2016-2860

Peter Iannucci discovered that users from foreign Kerberos realms can create groups as if they were administrators.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.9-2+deb8u5.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.17-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.17-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openafs packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'openafs' package(s) on Debian 8.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.2

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8312
Debian Security Information: DSA-3569 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3569
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-2860
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2016/000496.html
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG

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