RHEL 7 : glusterfs (RHSA-2018:3432)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118583

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for glusterfs.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3432 advisory.

- glusterfs: glusterfs server exploitable via symlinks to relative paths (CVE-2018-14651)

- glusterfs: Buffer overflow in features/locks translator allows for denial of service (CVE-2018-14652)

- glusterfs: Heap-based buffer overflow via gf_getspec_req RPC message (CVE-2018-14653)

- glusterfs: features/index translator can create arbitrary, empty files (CVE-2018-14654)

- glusterfs: Unlimited file creation via GF_XATTR_IOSTATS_DUMP_KEY xattr allows for denial of service (CVE-2018-14659)

- glusterfs: Repeat use of GF_META_LOCK_KEY xattr allows for memory exhaustion (CVE-2018-14660)

- glusterfs: features/locks translator passes an user-controlled string to snprintf without a proper format string resulting in a denial of service (CVE-2018-14661)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL glusterfs package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:3432.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118583

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3432.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/1/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14654

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-14653

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-api-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-client-xlators, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-events, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-fuse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-ganesha, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-geo-replication, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-rdma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-resource-agents, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python2-gluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-storage-server, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/31/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/31/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-14651, CVE-2018-14652, CVE-2018-14653, CVE-2018-14654, CVE-2018-14659, CVE-2018-14660, CVE-2018-14661

CWE: 120, 122, 20, 22, 400, 59, 770

RHSA: 2018:3432

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