CVE-2016-2860

Name	CVE-2016-2860
Description	The newEntry function in ptserver/ptprocs.c in OpenAFS before 1.6.17 allows remote authenticated users from foreign Kerberos realms to bypass intended access restrictions and create arbitrary groups as administrators by leveraging mishandling of the creator ID.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SuSE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-493-1, DSA-3569-1
NVD severity	medium (attack range: remote)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
openafs (PTS)	wheezy	1.6.1-3+deb7u5	vulnerable
	wheezy (security)	1.6.1-3+deb7u7	fixed
	jessie (security), jessie	1.6.9-2+deb8u5	fixed
	stretch	1.6.20-2	fixed
	buster, sid	1.6.21-3	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin
openafs	source	(unstable)	1.6.17-1	medium
openafs	source	jessie	1.6.9-2+deb8u5	medium	DSA-3569-1
openafs	source	wheezy	1.6.1-3+deb7u6	medium	DLA-493-1

Notes

http://git.openafs.org/?p=openafs.git;a=commitdiff;h=396240cf070a806b91fea81131d034e1399af1e0
http://rt.central.org/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=132822 (currently not public)