UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14850

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14850

    Published: 18 Mar 2021Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-14850

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14850, https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html, https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/c05686f9577fa91b6a3a4d8c065954ca6fc3fd62, https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/a6b88b195a959b17524d1c8353fd425d4891dc5f, https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/e06cde00659ff97182173d0e33fff784041bcb4a, https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/bf0d61883a2f02f4388ec10dc92d4c61c093679e, https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/22b30adb796bb6dca264a38598f80b8a234ff978, https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/b2bc6683ea3cd1f6be694e8a681dfa411b7d15f3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14850

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nbdkit

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.1.10-1
    1.1.11-1
    1.1.11-1build1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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