CVE-2009-1250: IBM Afs

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The cache manager in the client in OpenAFS 1.0 through 1.4.8 and 1.5.0 through 1.5.58, and IBM AFS 3.6 before Patch 19, on Linux allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an RX response with a large error-code value that is interpreted as a pointer and dereferenced, related to use of the ERR_PTR macro.

Affected products

• IBM Afs: up to and including 3.6; version 3.6 only
• Openafs Openafs: version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.4a only; …

Published 2009-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.