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CVE-2015-7762

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

rx/rx.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.15 and 1.7.x before 1.7.33 does not properly initialize the padding of a data structure when constructing an Rx acknowledgement (ACK) packet, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by (1) conducting a replay attack or (2) sniffing the network.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• The OpenAFS Foundation OpenAFS: through 1.6.14.1; 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.8, 1.7.10 (+21)

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3387
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034039
• https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2015/000493.html
• https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.15/RELNOTES-1.6.15
• https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2015-007.txt
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3387
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034039
• https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2015/000493.html
• https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.15/RELNOTES-1.6.15
• https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2015-007.txt

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