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Debian: DSA-5842-1 critical: OpenAFS denial of service risks

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2025
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5772-1 concerns various flaws in OpenAFS, prompting necessary updates to the affected packages.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in OpenAFS, an implementation of the AFS distributed filesystem, which may result in theft of credentials in Unix client PAGs (CVE-2024-1039...
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security advisory denial of service information leak buffer overflow Debian credential theft OpenAFS

Summary

For the stable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.8.9-1+deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your openafs packages.

For the detailed security status of openafs please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/openafs

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: openafs
CVE ID: CVE-2024-10394 CVE-2024-10396 CVE-2024-10397

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service information leak buffer overflow Debian credential theft OpenAFS

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