[OpenAFS-devel] xdr_array vulnerability

Nickolai Zeldovich kolya@MIT.EDU
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:11:07 -0500


> Would someone who is familiar with xdr comment on this patch?  It looks
> right to me, and an OpenBSD security advisory implies that it's needed to
> close a remote exploit.

Our xdr_array was indeed vulnerable, but was fixed around the same time as
OpenBSD's (see http://www.openafs.org/security/OPENAFS-SA-2002-001.txt).

-- kolya