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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| redhat / enterprise_linux | 8.0 | 8.0.x |
| redhat / enterprise_linux_server | 7.0 | 7.0.x |
| redhat / virtualization | 4.0 | 4.0.x |
| nbdkit_project / nbdkit | - | 1.12.7 |
| nbdkit_project / nbdkit | 1.14.0 | 1.14.1 |
| nbdkit_project / nbdkit | 1.15.0 | 1.15.1 |