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Gentoo: 202104-02 Critical: OpenSSL Security Vulnerability Update

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
An exploit concerning Denial of Service in OpenAFS identified; Gentoo users advised to implement updates for enhanced security.
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in OpenAFS.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200801-04
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

Severity: Normal Title: OpenAFS: Denial of Service Date: January 09, 2008 Bugs: #203573 ID: 200801-04

Synopsis ======= A Denial of Service vulnerability has been discovered in OpenAFS.
Background ========= OpenAFS is a distributed network filesystem.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-fs/openafs < 1.4.6 >= 1.4.6
========== Russ Allbery, Jeffrey Altman, Dan Hyde and Thomas Mueller discovered a race condition due to an improper handling of the clients callbacks lists.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could construct cas...

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