NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ceph-iscsi-tools package, versions <0:1.1-1.el7cp


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.28% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-CEPHISCSITOOLS-4446840
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed20 Oct 2016

Introduced: 20 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-8626  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 ceph-iscsi-tools to version 0:1.1-1.el7cp or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2016:2815.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ceph-iscsi-tools package and not the ceph-iscsi-tools package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph before 0.94.9-8. The way Ceph Object Gateway handles POST object requests permits an authenticated attacker to launch a denial of service attack by sending null or specially crafted POST object requests.