CVE-2019-14850 (GCVE-0-2019-14850)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-18 18:56
Modified
2024-08-05 00:26
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CWE
Summary
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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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a nbdkit Version: nbdkit 1.12.7, nbdkit 1.14.1, nbdkit 1.15.1
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