CVE-2018-10924

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% 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-400

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.

Affected products

Red Hat glusterfs: from 3.12.11 before 3.12.14; from 4.0.0 before 4.1.4 — fixed in 3.12.14, 4.1.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat glusterfs 3.12.14, 4.1.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10924
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/20723/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10924
https://review.gluster.org/#/c/glusterfs/+/20723/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06

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