CVE-2018-14652

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-10-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-120

Description

The Gluster file system through versions 3.12 and 4.1.4 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the 'features/index' translator via the code handling the 'GF_XATTR_CLRLK_CMD' xattr in the 'pl_getxattr' function. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this on a mounted volume to cause a denial of service.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Virtualization: 4.0
RedHat Enterprise Virtualization Host: 4.0
Red Hat, Inc. Gluster Storage for RHEL 6: from 3.0.0 through 3.1.2; from 4.1.0 through 4.1.8

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3431
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3432
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14652
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00003.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3431
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3432
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14652
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00003.html

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