CVE-2018-10907: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

It was found that glusterfs server is vulnerable to multiple stack based buffer overflows due to functions in server-rpc-fopc.c allocating fixed size buffers using 'alloca(3)'. An authenticated attacker could exploit this by mounting a gluster volume and sending a string longer that the fixed buffer size to cause crash or potential code execution.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
  • Gluster Glusterfs: from 3.12.0, before 3.12.14 (fixed in 3.12.14); from 4.1.0, before 4.1.4 (fixed in 4.1.4)
  • Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
  • Red Hat Virtualization Host: version 4.0 only

Published 2018-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.