High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Sep 4, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-10923
CVE-2018-10923
Description
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.
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Affected products
3- Red Hat/glusterfsv5Range: n/a
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00035.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2607nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2608nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3470nvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00021.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00000.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-06nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingMitigation
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