USN-4528-1: Ceph vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

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)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04

• ceph - 12.2.13-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
• ceph-base - 12.2.13-0ubuntu0.18.04.4
• ceph-common - 12.2.13-0ubuntu0.18.04.4

Ubuntu 16.04

• ceph - 10.2.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
• ceph-common - 10.2.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.3

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

References

• CVE-2020-10753
• CVE-2020-12059
• CVE-2020-1760

Related notices

• USN-4706-1: ceph-mgr-rook, ceph-mon, ceph-resource-agents, ceph-mgr-dashboard, ceph-mgr-diskprediction-cloud, ceph-common, ceph-immutable-object-cache, rbd-fuse, ceph-mgr-k8sevents, libradosstriper-dev, ceph-fuse, ceph-mgr, librbd1, librgw-dev, python3-cephfs, libcephfs2, python3-ceph-common, python3-rgw, librgw2, python3-ceph, python3-rados, rbd-nbd, librados-dev, ceph, libradosstriper1, python3-rbd, libcephfs-jni, python3-ceph-argparse, librados2, libradospp-dev, ceph-mgr-diskprediction-local, ceph-mgr-cephadm, ceph-osd, cephfs-shell, librbd-dev, rbd-mirror, ceph-mgr-modules-core, ceph-base, cephadm, radosgw, libcephfs-java, ceph-mds, rados-objclass-dev, libcephfs-dev