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SUSE: CVE-2018-10923: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-10923: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/04/2018
Created
01/23/2020
Added
01/21/2020
Modified
10/22/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-glusterfs
  • suse-upgrade-glusterfs-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libgfapi0
  • suse-upgrade-libgfchangelog0
  • suse-upgrade-libgfdb0
  • suse-upgrade-libgfrpc0
  • suse-upgrade-libgfxdr0
  • suse-upgrade-libglusterfs0
  • suse-upgrade-python-gluster

References

  • CVE-2018-10923

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