NAME

       nbdkit-security - information about past security issues in nbdkit

DESCRIPTION

       This page details past security issues found in nbdkit.

       For how to report new security issues, see the "SECURITY" file in the top level source directory, also
       available online here: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/blob/master/SECURITY

   CVE-2019-14850 denial of service due to premature opening of back-end connection
       See the full announcement and links to mitigation, tests and fixes here:
       https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00084.html

   CVE-2019-14851 assertion failure by issuing commands in the wrong order
       This CVE was caused by the fix to the previous issue.

       See the full announcement and links to mitigation, tests and fixes here:
       https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00272.html

   CVE-2021-3716 structured read denial of service attack against starttls
       See the full announcement and links to mitigation, tests and fixes here:
       https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2021-August/msg00083.html

SEE ALSO

       nbdkit(1).

AUTHORS

       Eric Blake

       Richard W.M. Jones

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nbdkit-1.42.2                                      2025-04-02                                 nbdkit-security(1)