ceph vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

* Ubuntu 19.10
* Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

Ceph could be made to stop responding if it received specially
crafted network traffic.

Software Description

* ceph - distributed storage and file system

Details

Or Friedman discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled disconnects.
A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause Ceph to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10
ceph - 14.2.4-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
ceph-base - 14.2.4-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
ceph-common - 14.2.4-0ubuntu0.19.10.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
ceph - 12.2.12-0ubuntu0.18.04.5
ceph-base - 12.2.12-0ubuntu0.18.04.5
ceph-common - 12.2.12-0ubuntu0.18.04.5

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

* CVE-2020-1700

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