CVE-2007-6599

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.1, 4.0
The OpenAFS Foundation OpenAFS: from 1.3.50 through 1.4.5; from 1.5.0 through 1.5.27

References

http://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2007/000220.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28327
http://secunia.com/advisories/28401
http://secunia.com/advisories/28433
http://secunia.com/advisories/28636
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-04.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1458
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:207
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/suse_security_summary_report.html
http://www.openafs.org/security/OPENAFS-SA-2007-003.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27132
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0046

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