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USN-1155-1: NBD vulnerability

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USN-1155-1: NBD vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/22/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Buffer overflow in the mainloop function in nbd-server.c in the server in Network Block Device (nbd) before 2.9.20 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long request. NOTE: this issue exists because of a CVE-2005-3534 regression.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-nbd-server

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