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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-10923: Important: Red Hat Gluster Storage security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-10923: Important: Red Hat Gluster Storage security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/04/2018
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

It was found that the "mknod" call derived from mknod(2) can create files pointing to devices on a glusterfs server node. An authenticated attacker could use this to create an arbitrary device and read data from any device attached to the glusterfs server node.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-glusterfs-server

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