Issued:
2016-07-05
Updated:
2016-07-05

RHSA-2016:1384 - Moderate: ceph security update


Synopsis

Moderate: ceph security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An updated ceph package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 1.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Ceph Storage is a massively scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that combines the most stable version of Ceph with a Ceph management platform, deployment tools, and support services.

A flaw was found in the way handle_command() function would validate prefix value from user. An authenticated attacker could send a specially crafted prefix value resulting in ceph monitor crash.(CVE-2016-5009)

Upstream acknowledges Xiaoxi Chen as the original reporter of CVE-2016-5009.

All ceph users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to correct this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64
Red Hat Ceph Storage OSD1.3x86_64
Red Hat Ceph Storage MON1.3x86_64

Updated Packages

  • librbd1-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-osd-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-mon-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • python-rados-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • librbd1-devel-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-common-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • librados2-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • librados2-devel-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-radosgw-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • python-rbd-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-debuginfo-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-selinux-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-test-0.94.5-14.el7cp.x86_64.rpm
  • ceph-0.94.5-14.el7cp.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References


Additional information