SB2018031520 - Denial of service in Red Hat Ceph Storage



SB2018031520 - Denial of service in Red Hat Ceph Storage

Published: March 15, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2018031520
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Denial of service (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-7262)

The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to perform HTTP response splitting attack.

The weakness exists in the rgw_civetweb.cc RGWCivetWeb::init_envfunction due to improper handling of HTTP headers. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP header and cause the service to crash.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.