Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:2018146590000000
Revision Date:2018-10-31Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-14659 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-14659
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND glusterfs: while related to the CVE in some way, a decision has been made to ignore this issue (note: 'reached end-of-life').
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