UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17432

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17432
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17432.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17432
Upstream
Published
2017-12-06T00:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:31Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

OpenAFS 1.x before 1.6.22 does not properly validate Rx ack packets, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash or application crash) via crafted fields, as demonstrated by an integer underflow and assertion failure for a small MTU value.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / openafs

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown 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_version": "1.6.15-1ubuntu1.1",
            "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": "libopenafs-dev"
        },
        {
            "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"
        }
    ]
}