SB2019013011 - Information disclosure in Red Hat Ceph



SB2019013011 - Information disclosure in Red Hat Ceph

Published: January 30, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2019013011
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Information disclosure

Breakdown by Severity

Low 100%
  • Low
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  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16889)

CWE-ID: CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a local attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak in improper sanitization of encryption keys in debug logging output for v4 authentication. A local attacker can trigger memory leak and gain access to plaintext encryption key information in log files.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.