CVE-2014-8177
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.
Find out more about CVE-2014-8177 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 4 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | Single |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (glusterfs) | RHSA-2015:1846 | 2015-10-05 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage NFS 3.1 on RHEL-6 (nfs-ganesha) | RHSA-2015:1845 | 2015-10-05 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-6 (swiftonfile) | RHSA-2015:1845 | 2015-10-05 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-6 | RHSA-2015:1845 | 2015-10-05 |
| Red Hat Storage Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (glusterfs) | RHSA-2015:1845 | 2015-10-05 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage NFS 3.1 on RHEL-7 (nfs-ganesha) | RHSA-2015:1846 | 2015-10-05 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage Server 3.1 on RHEL-7 (swiftonfile) | RHSA-2015:1846 | 2015-10-05 |
| Red Hat Gluster Storage Nagios 3.1 on RHEL-7 | RHSA-2015:1846 | 2015-10-05 |