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openafs — security advisory
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.
- Products
- openafs
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.4.10+dfsg1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-1250
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-1250
openafs
Fixed versions: 1.4.10+dfsg1-1
openafs
Fixed versions: 1.4.10+dfsg1-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:37.228767035Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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