Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 18, 2021· Updated Aug 5, 2024
CVE-2019-14850
CVE-2019-14850
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.
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Affected products
2- nbdkit/nbdkitdescription
- Range: >=1.12.7, <=1.15.1
Patches
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References
2- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
- www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
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