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CVE-2018-14661

• 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-20

Description

It was found that usage of snprintf function in feature/locks translator of glusterfs server 3.8.4, as shipped with Red Hat Gluster Storage, was vulnerable to a format string attack. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause remote denial of service.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Red Hat glusterfs: 3.8.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 6.0, 7.0
• RedHat Virtualization: 4.0
• RedHat Virtualization Host: 4.0

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-2018-14661
• 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-2018-14661
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00003.html

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