RHSA-2018:1269 — Security Advisory

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.

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):

• It was found that fix for CVE-2018-1088 introduced a new vulnerability in the way 'auth.allow' is implemented in glusterfs server. An unauthenticated gluster client could mount gluster storage volumes. (CVE-2018-1112)