Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHSA-2018:3242 - Moderate: glusterfs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: glusterfs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for glusterfs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

Description

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 following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: glusterfs (3.12.2). (BZ#1579734)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Virtualization4x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 97ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • glusterfs-api-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-cli-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-rdma-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • python2-gluster-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-client-xlators-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-fuse-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-libs-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-api-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-fuse-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-client-xlators-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-3.12.2-18.el7.src.rpm
  • glusterfs-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-debuginfo-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-api-devel-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-libs-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-devel-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-api-devel-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-debuginfo-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • glusterfs-rdma-3.12.2-18.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • python2-gluster-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-cli-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • glusterfs-devel-3.12.2-18.el7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information