Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / nbdkit | affected nbdkit 1.12.7, nbdkit 1.14.1, nbdkit 1.15.1 |
CWE
CWE-406
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1757258
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html
ADP enrichment
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