Bug 1142073 (CVE-2014-6418) - CVE-2014-6418 kernel: libceph: missing validation of auth reply
Summary: CVE-2014-6418 kernel: libceph: missing validation of auth reply
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-6418
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: Engineering1142285 Engineering1142287
Blocks: Embargoed1142025
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Reported: 2014-09-16 06:35 UTC by Wade Mealing
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-08-08 13:18:23 UTC

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Description Wade Mealing 2014-09-16 06:35:39 UTC 
A flaw was found in the kernels handling of ceph authentication tickets.  

The auth reply could be returned to a client unvalidated.
Comment 2 Wade Mealing 2014-09-17 05:45:05 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7.0 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 (as they did not include support for this feature).
Comment 3 Wade Mealing 2014-09-18 01:36:31 UTC 
Upstream fixes:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c27a3e4d667fdcad3db7b104f75659478e0c68d8
Comment 4 Wade Mealing 2014-10-02 03:50:32 UTC 
The tracking bug [Engineeringbug 1142287] has been closed as dupe, being tracked in EngineeringBZ 1142285.
Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-08-08 13:18:23 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2014-6418
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