Resource Exhaustion Affecting glusterfs-rdma package, versions <0:3.12.2-25.el7


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.17% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-GLUSTERFSRDMA-4441280
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed31 Oct 2018

Introduced: 31 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-14659  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 glusterfs-rdma to version 0:3.12.2-25.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3432.

NVD Description

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

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack via use of the 'GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY' xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a Gluster volume and repeatedly calling 'setxattr(2)' to trigger a state dump and create an arbitrary number of files in the server's runtime directory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1