High
Security advisory
A flaw was found in the way dic_unserialize function of glusterfs does not handle negative key length values. An attacker could use this flaw to read memory from other locations into the stored dict value.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-10911
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:16 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in the way dic_unserialize function of glusterfs does not handle negative key length values. An attacker could use this flaw to read memory from other locations into the stored dict value.
osv:CVE-2018-10911
Complete source record
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