USN-6063-1: Ceph vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM

Packages

• ceph - distributed storage and file system

Details

Mark Kirkwood discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled certain key lengths.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to create non-random encryption
keys. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
(CVE-2021-3979)

It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled the volumes plugin. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain access to any share. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10.
(CVE-2022-0670)

It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled crash dumps. A local
attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges to root. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10.
(CVE-2022-3650)

It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled URL processing on RGW
backends. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause RGW to crash,
leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3854)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10

• ceph - 17.2.5-0ubuntu0.22.10.3
• ceph-base - 17.2.5-0ubuntu0.22.10.3
• ceph-common - 17.2.5-0ubuntu0.22.10.3

Ubuntu 22.04

• ceph - 17.2.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
• ceph-base - 17.2.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.3
• ceph-common - 17.2.5-0ubuntu0.22.04.3

Ubuntu 20.04

• ceph - 15.2.17-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
• ceph-base - 15.2.17-0ubuntu0.20.04.3
• ceph-common - 15.2.17-0ubuntu0.20.04.3

Ubuntu 18.04

• ceph - 12.2.13-0ubuntu0.18.04.11
• ceph-base - 12.2.13-0ubuntu0.18.04.11
• ceph-common - 12.2.13-0ubuntu0.18.04.11

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

References

• CVE-2021-3979
• CVE-2022-3854
• CVE-2022-3650
• CVE-2022-0670

Related notices

• USN-6292-1: python3-rados, libsqlite3-mod-ceph, python3-rbd, ceph-mgr-modules-core, cephfs-shell, librados2, python3-rgw, libcephfs-jni, ceph-base, python3-ceph-common, librados-dev, rbd-mirror, python3-ceph-argparse, libsqlite3-mod-ceph-dev, ceph, ceph-mon, crimson-osd, ceph-common, libradosstriper1, python3-ceph, rbd-fuse, rbd-nbd, ceph-volume, librbd-dev, radosgw, libcephfs2, librbd1, ceph-osd, libradospp-dev, ceph-mds, librgw2, ceph-prometheus-alerts, ceph-mgr-cephadm, ceph-mgr-k8sevents, ceph-mgr-dashboard, ceph-resource-agents, rados-objclass-dev, ceph-immutable-object-cache, ceph-mgr-rook, ceph-grafana-dashboards, libcephfs-dev, cephadm, libradosstriper-dev, librgw-dev, libcephfs-java, ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local, cephfs-mirror, ceph-mgr, ceph-fuse, python3-cephfs