Memory leak in OpenAFS - CVE-2018-16948
Published: January 1, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16768
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16948
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: OpenAFS.org
Affected software:
OpenAFS
OpenAFS
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to several RPC server routines did not fully initialize their output variables before returning, leaking memory contents from both the stack and the heap. A remote attacker can cause RXAFSCB_TellMeAboutYourself kernel memory leak and KAM_ListEntry kaserver memory leak and access important data.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-16948
The vulnerability has been addressed in the version 1.6.23, 1.8.2.