CVE-2019-14850

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-14850
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-18 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-03-24 18:05:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-406

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Nbdkit Project Nbdkit All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Virtualization 4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Libguestfs] [NBDKIT SECURITY] Denial of Service / Amplification Attack MISC www.redhat.com
1757258 – (CVE-2019-14850) CVE-2019-14850 nbdkit: denial of service due to premature opening of back-end connection MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 377323 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for nbdkit (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0069)
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