Vigil@nce - nbdkit: denial of service via Premature Back-end Opening
June 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerabilities-watch-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: RHEL.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: denial of service on service, denial of service on
client.
Provenance: intranet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 01/04/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a fatal error via Premature Back-end
Opening of nbdkit, in order to trigger a denial of service.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/nbdkit-denial-of-service-via-Premature-Back-end-Opening-31917