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Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.1 RHSA-2018-2838-01 Critical: Remote Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey October 1, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Critical security patch for ceph-iscsi-cli on Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.1 mitigates risks of remote exploitation vulnerabilities.
An update for ceph-iscsi-cli is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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

ceph-iscsi-cli provides a CLI interface similar to the targetcli tool used to interact with the kernel LIO subsystem.
Security Fix(es):
* It was found that rbd-target-api service provided by ceph-iscsi-cli was running in debug mode. An unauthenticated attacker could use this to remotely execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges. (CVE-2018-14649)

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical remote execution red hat ceph storage ceph-iscsi-cli

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14649 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical https://access.redhat.com/articles/3623521

Package List

Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.1 Tools:
Source: ceph-iscsi-cli-2.7-7.el7cp.src.rpm
noarch: ceph-iscsi-cli-2.7-7.el7cp.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2838-01
Product: Red Hat Ceph Storage
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2838
Issue date: 2018-10-01

Topic

An update for ceph-iscsi-cli is now available for Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.1for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update critical remote execution red hat ceph storage ceph-iscsi-cli

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ceph Storage 3.1 Tools - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1632078 - CVE-2018-14649 ceph-iscsi-cli: rbd-target-api service runs in debug mode allowing for remote command execution

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