Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-10924 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Gluster Glusterfs
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
It was discovered that fsync(2) system call in glusterfs client code leaks memory. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to launch a denial of service attack by making gluster clients consume memory of the host machine.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 17 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- HTTP DoS An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
Nessus
NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-201904-06.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201904-06 (GlusterFS: Multiple Vulnerabilities) Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GlusterFS. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Impact : Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. Workaround : There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 123580 published 2019-04-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123580 title GLSA-201904-06 : GlusterFS: Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2020-79.NASL description This update for glusterfs fixes the following issues : glusterfs was update to release 3.12.15 : - Fixed a number of bugs and security issues : - CVE-2018-1088, CVE-2018-1112 [boo#1090084], CVE-2018-10904 [boo#1107018], CVE-2018-10907 [boo#1107019], CVE-2018-10911 [boo#1107020], CVE-2018-10913 [boo#1107021], CVE-2018-10914 [boo#1107022], CVE-2018-10923 [boo#1107023], CVE-2018-10924 [boo#1107024], CVE-2018-10926 [boo#1107025], CVE-2018-10927 [boo#1107026], CVE-2018-10928 [boo#1107027], CVE-2018-10928 [boo#1107027], CVE-2018-10929 [boo#1107028], CVE-2018-10930 [boo#1107029], boo#1105776 . last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 133132 published 2020-01-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/133132 title openSUSE Security Update : glusterfs (openSUSE-2020-79)