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CVE-2018-14659

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.

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
RedhatGluster File System
from 3.0.0 through 3.1.2
from 4.1.0 through 4.1.4
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatVirtualization
Version 4.0
RedhatVirtualization Host
Version 4.0

Weakness classification

CWE-400

References