CVE-2018-14654

A flaw was found in the way glusterfs server handles client requests. A remote, authenticated attacker could set arbitrary values for the GF_XATTROP_ENTRY_IN_KEY and GF_XATTROP_ENTRY_OUT_KEY during xattrop file operation resulting in creation and deletion of arbitrary files on glusterfs server node.

This issue did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 as the flaw is present in glusterfs-server, which is not shipped there.

This flaw affects glusterfs versions included in Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor. However, in recommended configurations, the vulnerability is only exposed to hypervisor administrators and can not be exploited from virtual machines or other hosts on the network.

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