#VU17097 Memory corruption in Ceph - CVE-2018-16846

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#VU17097 Memory corruption in Ceph - CVE-2018-16846

Published: January 21, 2019


Vulnerability identifier: #VU17097
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-16846
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Ceph
Software vendor:
Red Hat Inc.

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in the RADOS Gateway (RGW) code base due to boundary error in the ListBucket max-keys function during bucket listing operations. A remote attacker with Ceph RGW user permissions can trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service attack against object maps (OMAPs) holding bucket indexes.


Remediation

Update to version 13.2.4.

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