CVE-2007-6599 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2007-6599?

CVE-2007-6599 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Jan 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in fileserver in OpenAFS 1.3.50 through 1.4.5 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.27 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by simultaneously acquiring and giving back file callbacks, which causes the handler for the GiveUpAllCallBacks RPC to perform linked-list operations without the host_glock lock.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-6599?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Openafs Openafs.

How do I fix CVE-2007-6599?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2007-6599 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-6599 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-6599, DSA-1458-1, GHSA-q3ff-m98v-rj6m.