CVE-2019-14850

Low

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit 1.12.7, 1.14.1 and 1.15.1. An attacker could connect to the nbdkit service and cause it to perform a large amount of work in initializing backend plugins, by simply opening a connection to the service. This vulnerability could cause resource consumption and degradation of service in nbdkit, depending on the plugins configured on the server-side.

SeverityLow
CVSS3.7
Exploit probability—
ProductNbdkit
PublishedMar 18, 2021
First seenMar 18, 2021
Weakness typeCWE-406CWE-406

How to fix

Update
  • nbdkit_project nbdkit1.12.7, 1.14.1, 1.15.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
nbdkit_project nbdkitv < 1.12.7, 1.14.0 ≤ v < 1.14.1, 1.15.0 ≤ v < 1.15.11.12.7, 1.14.1, 1.15.1
redhat virtualization4.0—
redhat enterprise_linux8.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_server7.0—

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