CVE-2015-7762: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

rx/rx.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.15 and 1.7.x before 1.7.33 does not properly initialize the padding of a data structure when constructing an Rx acknowledgement (ACK) packet, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by (1) conducting a replay attack or (2) sniffing the network.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
  • Openafs Openafs: up to and including 1.6.14.1; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.7.2 only; version 1.7.3 only; version 1.7.4 only; version 1.7.8 only; …

Published 2015-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.