Bug 1257525 (CVE-2014-8177)

Summary:	CVE-2014-8177 gluster-swift metadata constraints are not correctly enforced
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Siddharth Sharma <sisharma>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	chrisw, nlevinki, rfortier, rhs-bugs, sgirijan, smohan, ssaha, vbellur
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the metadata constraints in Red Hat Gluster Storage's OpenStack Object Storage (swiftonfile). By adding metadata in several separate calls, a malicious user could bypass the max_meta_count constraint, and store more metadata than allowed by the configuration.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-10-09 06:41:54 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1257884
Bug Blocks:	1257505

Description Siddharth Sharma 2015-08-27 09:27:46 UTC

Description:
A flaw was found in the metadata constraints in gluster-swift package. By
adding metadata in several separate calls, a malicious user could bypass the
max_meta_count constraint, and store more metadata than allowed by the
configuration.

References:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q3/448
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/215487

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-05 07:25:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6
  Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat Storage

Via RHSA-2015:1845 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1845.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-05 10:43:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7
  Native Client for RHEL 7 for Red Hat Storage

Via RHSA-2015:1846 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1846.html