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RHEL 7 : Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 update (Moderate) (RHSA-2015:1846)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 86844

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:1846 advisory.

 Red Hat Gluster Storage is a software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges.

 Red Hat Gluster Storage's Unified File and Object Storage is built on OpenStack's Object Storage (swift).

 A flaw was found in the metadata constraints in Red Hat Gluster Storage's OpenStack Object Storage (swiftonfile). By adding metadata in several separate calls, a malicious user could bypass the max_meta_count constraint, and store more metadata than allowed by the configuration.
 (CVE-2014-8177)

 This update also fixes numerous bugs and adds various enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed to the Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 Technical Notes, linked to in the References section, for information on the most significant of these changes.

 This advisory introduces the following new features:

 * Gdeploy is a tool which automates the process of creating, formatting, and mounting bricks. When setting up a fresh cluster, gdeploy could be the preferred choice of cluster set up, as manually executing numerous commands can be error prone. The advantages of using gdeploy includes automated brick creation, flexibility in choosing the drives to configure (sd, vd, etc.), and flexibility in naming the logical volumes (LV) and volume groups (VG). (BZ#1248899)

 * The gstatus command is now fully supported. The gstatus command provides an easy-to-use, high-level view of the health of a trusted storage pool with a single command. It gathers information about the health of a Red Hat Gluster Storage trusted storage pool for distributed, replicated, distributed-replicated, dispersed, and distributed-dispersed volumes.
 (BZ#1250453)

 * You can now recover a bad file detected by BitRot from a replicated volume. The information about the bad file will be logged in the scrubber log file located at /var/log/glusterfs/scrub.log. (BZ#1238171)

 * Two tailored tuned profiles are introduced to improve the performance for specific Red Hat Gluster Storage workloads. They are: rhgs-sequential-io, which improves performance of large files with sequential I/O workloads, and rhgs-random-io, which improves performance of small files with random I/O workloads (BZ# 1251360)

 All users of Red Hat Gluster Storage are advised to apply this update.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1257525

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

http://www.nessus.org/u?7c54d416

http://www.nessus.org/u?7f5c5427

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:1846

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1242749

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259221

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 86844

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-1846.nasl

Version: 2.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/11/2015

Updated: 8/15/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-1856

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8177

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-ganesha, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-api, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gstatus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-container, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gluster-nagios-addons, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-client-xlators, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-openstacknet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-jsonrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:swiftonfile, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-rdma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nfs-ganesha-gluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nagios-server-addons, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-qemucmdline, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-object, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-ethtool-options, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-account, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-api-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-fuse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-gluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-reg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:redhat-storage-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-hook-faqemu, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-geo-replication, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nfs-ganesha, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-debug-plugin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-yajsonrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-gluster, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gluster-nagios-common, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:glusterfs-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gdeploy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-python-zombiereaper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-swift-proxy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:vdsm-cli

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/21/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8177, CVE-2015-1856

BID: 76979

RHSA: 2015:1846