UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14850
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14850
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14850.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14850
- Related
- Published
- 2021-03-18T19:15:00Z
- Modified
- 2024-10-15T14:06:55Z
- Severity
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- 3.7 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- 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
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / nbdkit
Package
- Name
- nbdkit
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/nbdkit?arch=src?distro=esm-apps/xenial
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / nbdkit
Package
- Name
- nbdkit
- Purl
- pkg:deb/ubuntu/nbdkit?arch=src?distro=focal
Affected ranges
- Type
- ECOSYSTEM
- Events
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Introduced0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected