Bug 1258743 (CVE-2015-5242)

Summary:	CVE-2015-5242 swiftonfile: use of insecure Python pickle for metadata serialization and storage
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Siddharth Sharma <sisharma>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	chrisw, nlevinki, rfortier, security-response-team, sgirijan, smohan, ssaha, vbellur
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the way swiftonfile (gluster-swift) serialized and stored metadata on disk by using Python's pickle module. A remote, authenticated user could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the storage node.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-10-21 04:06:42 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1258752
Bug Blocks:	1257505

Description Siddharth Sharma 2015-09-01 07:40:18 UTC

A flaw was found in the way swiftonfile (gluster-swift) serializes and stores metadata on disk by using Python's pickle module (https://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html). Exploiting this flaw causes remote code execution of arbitrary code on the storage node.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-20 18:20:46 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 6
  Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2015:1918 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1918.html