CVE-2016-5009

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The handle_command function in mon/Monitor.cc in Ceph allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and ceph monitor crash) via an (1) empty or (2) crafted prefix.

Affected products

ceph: through 0.94.6
RedHat Ceph Storage Mon: 1.3
RedHat Ceph Storage Osd: 1.3
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux For Scientific Computing: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00126.html
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/16297
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1384
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1385
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/957ece7e95d8f8746191fd9629622d4457d690d6
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/9700
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-12/msg00126.html
http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/16297
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1384
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1385
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/957ece7e95d8f8746191fd9629622d4457d690d6
https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/9700

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