CVE-2019-14850

CVE Details

Release Date:	2021-03-18
Impact:	None	What is this?

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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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v3 metrics

Base Score:	3.7
Vector String:	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Version:	3.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Privileges Required:	None
User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Low

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (nbdkit)	ELSA-2020-1167	2020-04-06