| Name | CVE-2018-14659 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1565-1, DLA-2806-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 912997 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| glusterfs (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.5.2-2+deb8u5 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 3.8.8-1+deb9u1 | fixed | |
| buster | 5.5-3 | fixed | |
| bullseye | 9.2-1 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 10.3-5 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 11.1-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| glusterfs | source | wheezy | (unfixed) | end-of-life | ||
| glusterfs | source | jessie | 3.5.2-2+deb8u5 | DLA-1565-1 | ||
| glusterfs | source | stretch | 3.8.8-1+deb9u1 | DLA-2806-1 | ||
| glusterfs | source | (unstable) | 5.1-1 | 912997 |
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/31/5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1635929
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/21530/
http://git.gluster.org/cgit/glusterfs.git/commit/?id=be1e1785e2e4f3d6345ea5b5b684a1429784a01c