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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14850
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...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
nbdkit
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.14.1-1"}]}]
Debian:13
nbdkit
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.14.1-1"}]}]
Debian:14
nbdkit
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.14.1-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org