Important: glusterfs security update

Synopsis

Important: glusterfs security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for glusterfs is now available for Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

GlusterFS is a key building block of Red Hat Gluster Storage. It is based on a stackable user-space design and can deliver exceptional performance for diverse workloads. GlusterFS aggregates various storage servers over network interconnections into one large, parallel network file system.

Security Fix(es):

• glusterfs: Privilege escalation via gluster_shared_storage when snapshot scheduling is enabled (CVE-2018-1088)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by John Strunk (Red Hat).

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1558721 - CVE-2018-1088 glusterfs: Privilege escalation via gluster_shared_storage when snapshot scheduling is enabled

CVEs

• CVE-2018-1088

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3414511