CVE-2018-10914 Null dereference in glusterfs

What is CVE-2018-10914?

CVE-2018-10914 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Sep 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

It was found that an attacker could issue a xattr request via glusterfs FUSE to cause gluster brick process to crash which will result in a remote denial of service. If gluster multiplexing is enabled this will result in a crash of multiple bricks and gluster volumes.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10914?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gluster Glusterfs, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Virtualization Host.

How do I fix CVE-2018-10914?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-10914 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10914 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10914, GHSA-c39g-wmc4-j8vm, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10914.