To mitigate the vulnerability, administrators were advised to:

In AFS3, the fileserver process ( fileserver or afs3-fileserver ) validates RXAFS_FetchData and RXAFS_StoreData RPC calls using a embedded in the request. Research (and real audits) show that:

**Step 1: The Mal

The exploit consists of three stages:

by providing an unbounded array size in Rx protocol arguments, leading to a heap buffer overflow. Uninitialized Memory: