QID 240286

Date Published: 2022-05-11

QID 240286: Red Hat Update for samba security (RHSA-2022:1756)

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.

Security Fix(es):
  • samba: symlink race error can allow metadata read and modify outside of the exported share (cve-2021-20316)
  • samba: information leak via symlinks of existance of files or directories outside of the exported share (cve-2021-44141)

Affected Products:

  • Red Hat gluster storage server for on-premise 3 for rhel 8 x86_64



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Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a security breach or could affect integrity, availability, and confidentiality.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.3 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 3.5 severity.
    • Solution
    Refer to Red Hat security advisory RHSA-2022:1756 for updates and patch information.
    Vendor References

    CVEs related to QID 240286

    CVE-2021-20316 | CVE-2021-44141 |
    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    RHSA-2022:1756 Red Hat Enterprise Linux URL Logo access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1756
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