A vulnerability has been identified in OpenAFS, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by a race condition within the "GiveUpAllCallBacks" RPC handler when simultaneously acquiring and giving back file callbacks, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable server, creating a denial of service condition.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Russ Allbery, Jeffrey Altman, Dan Hyde and Thomas Mueller.
ChangeLog
2008-01-07 : Initial release
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