CVE-2018-14659

A flaw was found in glusterfs server which allowed clients to create io-stats dumps on server node. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create io-stats dump on a server without any limitation and utilizing all available inodes resulting in remote denial of service.

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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