CVE-2019-14850
Fixed in a distro release EPSS 2%
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.
Products: nbdkit_project nbdkit, redhat virtualization, redhat enterprise_linux, redhat enterprise_linux_server
Distro releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 12 | nbdkit | 1.14.1-1 |
| Debian 13 | nbdkit | 1.14.1-1 |
| Debian 14 | nbdkit | 1.14.1-1 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nbdkit | 0:1.8.0-3.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nbdkit-basic-plugins | 0:1.8.0-3.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nbdkit-debuginfo | 0:1.8.0-3.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nbdkit-devel | 0:1.8.0-3.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nbdkit-example-plugins | 0:1.8.0-3.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nbdkit-plugin-python-common | 0:1.8.0-3.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nbdkit-plugin-python2 | 0:1.8.0-3.el7 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | nbdkit-plugin-vddk | 0:1.8.0-3.el7 |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | nbdkit | no fix |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | nbdkit | no fix |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | nbdkit | no fix |