Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to a Reachable Assertion in the RHEL UBI (CVE-2024-33601)

Summary

RHEL UBI is used by IBM Storage Ceph as the base operating system. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in the RHEL UBI. CVE-2024-33601.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-33601
**DESCRIPTION:**glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory allocation failure when the Name Service Cache Daemon’s (nscd) netgroup cache uses the xmalloc or xrealloc functions. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to terminate the daemon.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/290170 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 7.1 by following instructions.

<https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/&gt;
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/7?topic=upgrading&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None