CVE-2009-1250 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2009-1250

The cache manager in the client in OpenAFS 1.0 through...

Vulnerability Description

The cache manager in the client in OpenAFS 1.0 through 1.4.8 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.58, and IBM AFS 3.6 before Patch 19, on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an RX response with a large error-code value that is interpreted as a pointer and dereferenced, related to use of the ERR_PTR macro.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

afs, openafs
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 3.6, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.4a, 1.1, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.1a, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.2a, 1.2.2b, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.2.8, 1.2.9, 1.2.10, 1.2.11, 1.2.13, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.5, 1.3.70, 1.3.74, 1.3.77, 1.3.81, 1.4, 1.4.0, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7, 1.4.7_pre1, 1.4.7_pre2, 1.4.7_pre3, 1.4.7_pre4, 1.4.7_pre5, 1.4.8, 1.4.8_pre1, 1.4.8_pre2, 1.4.8_pre3, 1.5, 1.5.16, 1.5.17, 1.5.26, 1.5.27, 1.5.30, 1.5.31, 1.5.32, 1.5.33, 1.5.34, 1.5.35, 1.5.36, 1.5.38, 1.5.39, 1.5.50, 1.5.52, 1.5.53, 1.5.54, 1.5.55, 1.5.56, 1.5.57, 1.5.58

Timeline

Official Publish: April 9th, 2009
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.