Bug 1635929 (CVE-2018-14659)
| Summary: | CVE-2018-14659 glusterfs: Unlimited file creation via "GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY" xattr allows for denial of service | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Sam Fowler <sfowler> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | abhgupta, anoopcs, atumball, bmcclain, dbaker, dblechte, dfediuck, eedri, humble.devassy, jokerman, jonathansteffan, kkeithle, matthias, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, ndevos, public, ramkrsna, rhs-bugs, sankarshan, sbonazzo, security-response-team, sfowler, sherold, sisharma, ssaha, sthangav, trankin, vbellur |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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A flaw was found in glusterfs server which allowed clients to create io-stats dumps on server node. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create io-stats dump on a server without any limitation and utilizing all available inodes resulting in remote denial of service.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2019-06-10 10:39:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1616829, 1636305, 1644583, 1644757, 1647665, 1647669 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1635927, 1644080 | ||
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Description
Sam Fowler
2018-10-04 01:02:20 UTC
Acknowledgments: Name: Michael Hanselmann (hansmi.ch) Statement: This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 as the flaw is present in glusterfs-server, which is not shipped there. This flaw affects glusterfs versions included in Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor. However, in recommended configurations, the vulnerability is only exposed to hypervisor administrators and can not be exploited from virtual machines or other hosts on the network. Created glusterfs tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1644583] This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6 Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat Storage Via RHSA-2018:3431 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3431 This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7 Native Client for RHEL 7 for Red Hat Storage Via RHSA-2018:3432 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3432 upstream fix: https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/21530/ This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2018:3470 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470 |