CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-10914

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Sep 04, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Glusterfs Gluster 3.12.0 (including) 3.12.14 (excluding)
Glusterfs Gluster 4.1.0 (including) 4.1.8 (excluding)
Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat Storage RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el6 *
Native Client for RHEL 7 for Red Hat Storage RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7 *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6 RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6 RedHat redhat-release-server-0:6Server-6.10.0.24.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6 RedHat redhat-storage-server-0:3.4.0.0-1.el6rhs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7 RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7rhgs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7 RedHat redhat-release-server-0:7.5-11.el7rhgs *
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7 RedHat redhat-storage-server-0:3.4.0.0-1.el7rhgs *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat glusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7 *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat imgbased-0:1.0.29-1.el7ev *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat redhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.2-7.3.el7 *
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat redhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20181026.0.el7_6 *
Glusterfs Ubuntu bionic *
Glusterfs Ubuntu cosmic *
Glusterfs Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Glusterfs Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Glusterfs Ubuntu trusty *
Glusterfs Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Glusterfs Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References