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CVE-2015-6587
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…
Medium4.0EPSS 1.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2015-006.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.13/RELNOTES-1.6.13 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3320 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [OpenAFS-announce] 20150730 SECURITY RELEASE: 1.6.13 now available (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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