CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-14660

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-11-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-11-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-770

Description

A flaw was found in glusterfs server through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 which allowed repeated usage of GF_META_LOCK_KEY xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create multiple locks for single inode by using setxattr repetitively resulting in memory exhaustion of glusterfs server node.

Affected configurations

• gluster glusterfs (>= 3.1.0 <= 3.1.2) • gluster glusterfs (>= 4.1.0 <= 4.1.4) • redhat virtualization host 4.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat virtualization 4.0 • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References