CVE-2015-6587 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6587?

CVE-2015-6587 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 2 Sep 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6587?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Openafs Openafs.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6587?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-6587 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6587 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 CVE-2015-3287, DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6587, GHSA-2rmv-q4gp-w43q, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6587.