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CVE-2018-10911

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

A flaw was found in the way dic_unserialize function of glusterfs does not handle negative key length values. An attacker could use this flaw to read memory from other locations into the stored dict value.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Red Hat glusterfs: from 3.12.0 before 3.12.14; from 4.1.0 before 4.1.8 — fixed in 3.12.14, 4.1.8
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Virtualization Host: 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat glusterfs 3.12.14, 4.1.8. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2607
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2608
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2892
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3242
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10911
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00021.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html
• https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/21067/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html

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