CVE-2018-1088

A privilege escalation flaw was found in gluster 3.x snapshot scheduler. Any gluster client allowed to mount gluster volumes could also mount shared gluster storage volume and escalate privileges by scheduling malicious cronjob via symlink.

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 .

These are all security issues fixed in the glusterfs-9.1-1.3 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled network requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-3619)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled user permissions. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this to add himself to a trusted storage pool and perform privileged operations on volumes. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-10841)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled mounting gluster volumes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to also mount shared gluster volumes and escalate privileges through malicious cronjobs. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-1088)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled file paths. An attacker could possibly use this issue to create arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10904)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled mounting volumes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or run arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10907)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled negative key length values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-10911)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled FUSE requests. An attacker could use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-10913, CVE-2018-10914)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled the file creation process. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to create arbitrary files and obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2018-10923)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled certain inputs. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-10924)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled RPC requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to write files to an arbitrary location and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-10926, CVE-2018-10927, CVE-2018-10928, CVE-2018-10929, CVE-2018-10930)

It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2018-10926, CVE-2018-10927, CVE-2018-10928, CVE-2018-10929, CVE-2018-10930 was incomplete. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-14651)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled certain files. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-14652)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled RPC requests. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2018-14653)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled mount volumes operation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to create arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-14654)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled certain files. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to create arbitrary files. (CVE-2018-14659)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled certain inputs. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this is issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-14660)

It was discovered that GlusterFS incorrectly handled strings. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-14661)