CVE-2017-7519 — In Ceph, a format string flaw was found in the way libradosstriper parses input

In Ceph, a format string flaw was found in the way libradosstriper parses input from user. A user could crash an application or service using the libradosstriper library.

01What is this vulnerability?

In Ceph, a format string flaw was found in the way libradosstriper parses input from user. A user could crash an application or service using the libradosstriper library.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
[UNKNOWN]	ceph	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-07-27T14:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T16:04:11.820Z

09References

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99075
• www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4339
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-7519