Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to an Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Curl (CVE-2023-23916)

Summary

Curl is used by IBM Storage Ceph as part of the RHEL UBI and in assorted other locations. CVE-2023-23916

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-23916
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the decompression chain implementation. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause memory errors, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/247437 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of Ceph and upgrade to 6.1 by following instructions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None