CVE-2019-14850
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 3.7 Low
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2021-03-18
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
- Weaknesses
- CWE-406
Affected products
- Nbdkit (Nbdkit Project)
- Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Server (Redhat)
- Virtualization (Redhat)
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757258
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html
