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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
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-10914
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

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

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
GlusterfsGluster3.12.0 (including)3.12.14 (excluding)
GlusterfsGluster4.1.0 (including)4.1.8 (excluding)
Native Client for RHEL 6 for Red Hat StorageRedHatglusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el6*
Native Client for RHEL 7 for Red Hat StorageRedHatglusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7*
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6RedHatglusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el6rhs*
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6RedHatredhat-release-server-0:6Server-6.10.0.24.el6rhs*
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 6RedHatredhat-storage-server-0:3.4.0.0-1.el6rhs*
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7RedHatglusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7rhgs*
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7RedHatredhat-release-server-0:7.5-11.el7rhgs*
Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 for RHEL 7RedHatredhat-storage-server-0:3.4.0.0-1.el7rhgs*
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatglusterfs-0:3.12.2-18.el7*
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatimgbased-0:1.0.29-1.el7ev*
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatredhat-release-virtualization-host-0:4.2-7.3.el7*
Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatredhat-virtualization-host-0:4.2-20181026.0.el7_6*
GlusterfsUbuntubionic*
GlusterfsUbuntucosmic*
GlusterfsUbuntuesm-apps/bionic*
GlusterfsUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
GlusterfsUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
GlusterfsUbuntutrusty*
GlusterfsUbuntutrusty/esm*
GlusterfsUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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