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Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.0 RHSA-2018-0548-01 Important: DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey March 15, 2018
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Crucial Ceph security patch for Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.0 resolves a denial of service vulnerability with significant repercussions.
An update for ceph is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.0 for Ubuntu 16.04

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Red Hat Ceph Storage is a scalable, open, software-defined storage platform that combines the most stable version of the Ceph storage system with a Ceph management platform, deployment utilities, and support services.
Security Fix(es):
* ceph: Unauthenticated malformed HTTP requests handled by rgw_civetweb.cc:RGW::init_env() can lead to denial of service (CVE-2018-7262)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update red hat important ubuntu ceph

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-7262 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:0548-01
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0548
Issue date: 2018-03-15

Topic

An update for ceph is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.0 for Ubuntu16.04.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security update red hat important ubuntu ceph

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

1546610 - CVE-2018-7262 ceph: Unauthenticated malformed HTTP requests handled by rgw_civetweb.cc:RGW::init_env() can lead to denial of service

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