MiracleLinux 7 : nbdkit-1.8.0-3.el7 (AXSA:2020-4543:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2020-4543:01 advisory. nbdkit: denial of service due to premature opening of back-end connection CVE-2019-14850 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from...

nbdkit security and bug fix update

1.8.0-3 - Fix for CVE-2019-14850 denial of service due to premature opening of back-end connection resolves: rhbz1757261 1.8.0-2 - Explicitly disable nbdkit-ext2-plugin in configure resolves: rhbz1724242...

nbdkit: denial of service due to premature opening of back-end connection

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit. 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...