UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10923

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10923

    Published: 4 Sept 2018Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-10923
    Aliases:
    USN-4770-1

    Summary:

    Details: It was found that the "mknod" call derived from mknod(2) can create files pointing to devices on a glusterfs server node. An authenticated attacker could use this to create an arbitrary device and read data from any device attached to the glusterfs server node.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-10923, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1610659, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10923, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4770-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-10923

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: glusterfs

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.4.2-1ubuntu1+esm1

    Affected versions

    3.2.7-3ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High