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.IX Title "nbdkit-security 1"
.TH nbdkit-security 1 2024-04-21 nbdkit-1.38.1 NBDKIT
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.SH NAME
nbdkit\-security \- information about past security issues in nbdkit
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This page details past security issues found in nbdkit.
.PP
For how to report new security issues, see the \f(CW\*(C`SECURITY\*(C'\fR file in the
top level source directory, also available online here:
https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/blob/master/SECURITY
.SS "CVE\-2019\-14850 denial of service due to premature opening of back-end connection"
.IX Subsection "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
.SS "CVE\-2019\-14851 assertion failure by issuing commands in the wrong order"
.IX Subsection "CVE-2019-14851 assertion failure by issuing commands in the wrong order"
This CVE was caused by the fix to the previous issue.
.PP
See the full announcement and links to mitigation, tests and fixes
here:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019\-September/msg00272.html
.SS "CVE\-2021\-3716 structured read denial of service attack against starttls"
.IX Subsection "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
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBnbdkit\fR\|(1).
.SH AUTHORS
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
Eric Blake
.PP
Richard W.M. Jones
.SH COPYRIGHT
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright Red Hat
.SH LICENSE
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
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