CVE-2018-14660: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in glusterfs server through versions 4.1.4 and 3.1.2 which allowed repeated usage of GF_META_LOCK_KEY xattr. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to create multiple locks for single inode by using setxattr repetitively resulting in memory exhaustion of glusterfs server node.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Gluster Glusterfs: from 3.1.0, up to and including 3.1.2; from 4.1.0, up to and including 4.1.4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization Host: version 4.0 only

Published 2018-11-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.