Debian Security Advisory DSA 2729-1 (openafs - Several Vulnerabilities) Network Vulnerability

Summary

OpenAFS, the implementation of the distributed filesystem AFS, has been updated to no longer use DES for the encryption of tickets. Additional migration steps are needed to fully set the update into effect. For more information please see the upstream advisory: OPENAFS-SA-2013-003In addition the encrypt option to the vos tool was fixed.

Solution

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.12.1+dfsg-4+squeeze2. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.1-3+deb7u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your openafs packages.

Insight

AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers.

Affected

openafs on Debian Linux

Detection

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

References