USN-4528-1: Ceph vulnerabilities

Publication date

22 September 2020

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Ceph.


Packages

  • ceph - distributed storage and file system

Details

Adam Mohammed discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain CORS
ExposeHeader tags. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
preform an HTTP header injection attack. (CVE-2020-10753)

Lei Cao discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain POST requests with
invalid tagging XML. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Ceph to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-12059)

Robin H. Johnson discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain S3
requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a
XSS attack. (CVE-2020-1760)

Adam Mohammed discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain CORS
ExposeHeader tags. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
preform an HTTP header injection attack. (CVE-2020-10753)

Lei Cao discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain POST requests with
invalid tagging XML. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Ceph to crash, leading to a denial of service. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-12059)

Robin H. Johnson discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain S3
requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a
XSS attack. (CVE-2020-1760)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:


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