CVE-2021-3979 (GCVE-0-2021-3979)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-25 00:00
Modified
2025-02-13 16:28
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-327 - - Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
Summary
A key length flaw was found in Red Hat Ceph Storage. An attacker can exploit the fact that the key length is incorrectly passed in an encryption algorithm to create a non random key, which is weaker and can be exploited for loss of confidentiality and integrity on encrypted disks.
References
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3979 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024788 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/47c33179f9a15ae95cc1579a421be89378602656 Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/44765 Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPOK44BESMIFW6BIOGCN452AKKOIIT6Q/ Mailing List
secalert@redhat.com https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/54006 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3979 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024788 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/ceph/ceph/commit/47c33179f9a15ae95cc1579a421be89378602656 Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/44765 Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00034.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPOK44BESMIFW6BIOGCN452AKKOIIT6Q/ Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/54006 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a ceph Version: Not-Known
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