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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-26496: NBD Tools: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 6, 2022
Added
Feb 5, 2024
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

In nbd-server in nbd before 3.24, there is a stack-based buffer overflow. An attacker can cause a buffer overflow in the parsing of the name field by sending a crafted NBD_OPT_INFO or NBD_OPT_GO message with an large value as the length of the name.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-block-nbd
Title
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