Client crash via freed callback state access
Published Feb 21, 2023 · Updated Mar 14, 2025
Use-after-free in GlusterFS 11.0 allows attackers to crash a mounted client by removing an extended attribute during a brick outage. A synchronous non-MDS callback can wipe frame-local state while dht_setxattr_mds_cbk continues accessing that freed state. Triggering requires a distributed two-brick volume, an unavailable non-MDS brick, and a removexattr operation; the demonstrated consequence is a client crash.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in GlusterFS 11.0 allows attackers to crash a mounted client by removing an extended attribute during a brick outage. A synchronous non-MDS callback can wipe frame-local state while dht_setxattr_mds_cbk continues accessing that freed state. Triggering requires a distributed two-brick volume, an unavailable non-MDS brick, and a removexattr operation; the demonstrated consequence is a client crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-48340
- Published
- Feb 21, 2023
- Updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-416, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 21, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 14, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- GlusterFS removexattr client-crash reproductionproof of concept · demonstrated
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