CentOS 6 : glusterfs (CESA-2018:2892)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118021

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for glusterfs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

GlusterFS is a key building block of Red Hat Gluster Storage. It is based on a stackable user-space design and can deliver exceptional performance for diverse workloads. GlusterFS aggregates various storage servers over network interconnections into one large, parallel network file system.

The glusterfs packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.12.2, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version.
(BZ#1594203)

Security Fix(es) :

* glusterfs: Improper deserialization in dict.c:dict_unserialize() can allow attackers to read arbitrary memory (CVE-2018-10911)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank Michael Hanselmann (hansmi.ch) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected glusterfs packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118021

File Name: centos_RHSA-2018-2892.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 10/10/2018

Updated: 2/9/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10911

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs-api, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs-client-xlators, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs-api-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs-cli, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs-fuse, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:glusterfs-rdma, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python2-gluster

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10911

RHSA: 2018:2892

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