USN-4112-1: Ceph vulnerability
29 August 2019
Ceph could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Releases
Packages
- ceph - distributed storage and file system
Details
Abhishek Lekshmanan discovered that the RADOS gateway implementation in
Ceph did not handle client disconnects properly in some situations. A
remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.