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CVE-2018-14653

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% 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-122

Description

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.12 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the '__server_getspec' function via the 'gf_getspec_req' RPC message. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or other potential unspecified impact.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Virtualization: 4.0
• Red Hat, Inc. Gluster Storage for RHEL 6: from 3.0.0 through 3.1.2; from 4.1.0 through 4.1.4

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-2018-14653
• 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-2018-14653
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00003.html

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