Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0484-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2017-0484-01 – Red Hat Gluster Storage is a software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: glusterfs, redhat-storage-server. Security Fix: It was found that glusterfs-server RPM package would write file with predictable name into world readable /tmp directory. A local attacker could potentially use this flaw to escalate their privileges to root by modifying the shell script during the installation of the glusterfs-server package.

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