OpenAFS security release 1.6.17 available

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The OpenAFS Security Team is pleased to announce the availability of
OpenAFS version 1.6.17 for UNIX/Linux. Source files can be accessed via
the web at:

  http://www.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.17/

or via AFS at:

   /afs/grand.central.org/software/openafs/1.6.17/
  \\afs\grand.central.org\software\openafs\1.6.17\

There are no binaries yet. Those will be uploaded as they become
available.

OpenAFS 1.6.17 is the next in the current series of stable releases of
OpenAFS for all platforms except Microsoft Windows.

This release fixes the vulnerabilities tracked as OPENAFS-SA-2016-001 and
OPENAFS-SA-2016-002.

OPENAFS-SA-2016-001 (CVE-2016-2860): Users from foreign Kerberos realms
can create groups as if they were administrators

OPENAFS-SA-2016-002: Information leakage over the network due to
uninitialized memory

For more details please see

  http://dl.openafs.org/dl/1.6.17/RELNOTES-1.6.17

  http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-001.txt
  http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/OPENAFS-SA-2016-002.txt

Bug reports should be filed to [email protected].

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

OPENAFS-SA-2016-001 was reported by Peter Iannucci
OPENAFS-SA-2016-002 was reported by Marc Dionne

Benjamin Kaduk
OpenAFS Security Officer
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