NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting imgbased package, versions <0:1.0.29-1.el7ev


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.45% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-IMGBASED-4460516
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed4 Sept 2018

Introduced: 4 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-10914  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 imgbased to version 0:1.0.29-1.el7ev or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3470.

NVD Description

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

It was found that an attacker could issue a xattr request via glusterfs FUSE to cause gluster brick process to crash which will result in a remote denial of service. If gluster multiplexing is enabled this will result in a crash of multiple bricks and gluster volumes.

CVSS Base Scores

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