CVE-2018-10923 Other in glusterfs

What is CVE-2018-10923?

CVE-2018-10923 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 4 Sep 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-10923?

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-2018-10923?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2018-10923 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-10923 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-2018-10923, GHSA-gxph-3c78-xmc3, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10923.