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CVE-2016-4536

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The client in OpenAFS before 1.6.17 does not properly initialize the (1) AFSStoreStatus, (2) AFSStoreVolumeStatus, (3) VldbListByAttributes, and (4) ListAddrByAttributes structures, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive memory information by leveraging access to RPC call traffic.

Affected products

• The OpenAFS Foundation OpenAFS: through 1.6.16

References

• https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2016/000496.html
• https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17
• https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-002.txt
• https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-announce/2016/000496.html
• https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17
• https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-002.txt

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