CVE-2015-6587

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The vlserver in OpenAFS before 1.6.13 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted regular expression in a VL_ListAttributesN2 RPC.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
The OpenAFS Foundation OpenAFS: through 1.6.12

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3320
http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2015-006.txt
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2015/000486.html
https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.13/RELNOTES-1.6.13
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3320
http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2015-006.txt
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2015/000486.html
https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.13/RELNOTES-1.6.13

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