CVE-2018-14653 Memory corruption in glusterfs

What is CVE-2018-14653?

CVE-2018-14653 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 31 Oct 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Gluster file system through versions 4.1.4 and 3.12 is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in the '__server_getspec' function via the 'gf_getspec_req' RPC message. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service or other potential unspecified impact.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-14653?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Virtualization, Redhat Gluster Storage.

How do I fix CVE-2018-14653?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-14653 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-14653 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-2018-14653, GHSA-947v-4hfw-4p67, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14653.