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List","Patch","Third Party Advisory","fix"]},{"url":"https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-003.txt","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Vendor Advisory","advisory","web","report"]},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94651","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_BID","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry","advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9772"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qx33-h57r-w5q6"},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-9772","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0037.html","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19879","tags":["report"]},{"url":"http://openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.18.1/RELNOTES-1.6.18.1","tags":["web"]},{"url":"http://openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.18.2/RELNOTES-1.6.18.2","tags":["web"]},{"url":"http://openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.18.3/RELNOTES-1.6.18.3","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://dl.openafs.org/dl/1.6.19/RELNOTES-1.6.19","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://dl.openafs.org/dl/1.6.20/RELNOTES-1.6.20","tags":["web"]},{"url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/02/9","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-9772","tags":["report"]},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/01/12","tags":["report"]},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9772","tags":["report"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2016-9772","description":"OpenAFS 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This extraneous information is not active - that is, it is\nlogically invisible to the fileserver and client. However, the leaked\ninformation is physically visible on the fileserver vice partition, on\nthe wire in FetchData replies and other RPCs, and on the client cache\npartition. This constitutes a leak of directory information\n(CVE-2016-9772).\n\nThe openafs package has been updated to version 1.6.20, to fix this\nissue and other bugs.\n","status":"published","published":"2017-02-02T19:17:14Z","modified":"2026-04-16T06:24:22.690882818Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:49:40.103088Z"}]}}
