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Ubuntu: USN-4770-1 (CVE-2018-10924): GlusterFS vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4770-1 (CVE-2018-10924): GlusterFS vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
09/04/2018
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

It was discovered that fsync(2) system call in glusterfs client code leaks memory. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to launch a denial of service attack by making gluster clients consume memory of the host machine.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-glusterfs-client
  • ubuntu-upgrade-glusterfs-common
  • ubuntu-upgrade-glusterfs-server

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