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CVE-2020-1700

A flaw was found in the way the Ceph RGW Beast front-end handles unexpected disconnects.

Impact

A flaw was found in the way the Ceph RGW Beast front-end handles unexpected disconnects. An authenticated attacker can abuse this flaw by making multiple disconnect attempts resulting in a permanent leak of a socket connection by radosgw. This flaw could lead to a denial of service condition by pile up of CLOSE_WAIT sockets, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources, preventing legitimate users from connecting to the system.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
CephCeph
All versions
RedhatOpenshift Container Storage
Version 4.2
OpensuseLeap
Version 15.1
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 18.04, 19.10

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