UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8312

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8312
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8312.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8312
Upstream
Published
2016-05-13T16:59:00Z
Modified
2026-04-22T10:20:44Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Off-by-one error in afs_pioctl.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.16 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and system crash) via a pioctl with an input buffer size of 4096 bytes.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / openafs

Package

Name
openafs
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/openafs@1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.6.14-1
1.6.15-1
1.6.15-1ubuntu1
1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libafsauthent1",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libafsrpc1",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libkopenafs1",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam-openafs-kaserver",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openafs-client",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openafs-dbserver",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openafs-fileserver",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openafs-fuse",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openafs-kpasswd",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openafs-krb5",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openafs-modules-dkms",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openafs-modules-source",
            "binary_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8312.json"