CVE-2015-6587

medium

Published 2015-09-02 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.0

Description

The vlserver in OpenAFS before 1.6.13 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via a crafted regular expression in a VL_ListAttributesN2 RPC.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.6.13-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.6.13-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.6.13-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.6.13-1`
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openafs	openafs	`{"endIncluding":"1.6.12"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.