CVE-2017-15119CWE-400

The Network Block Device (NBD) server in Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 2.11 is vulnerable to a denial of service issue

Medium · published July 27, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.8
EPSS
3%
Percentile
88.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Network Block Device (NBD) server in Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 2.11 is vulnerable to a denial of service issue. It could occur if a client sent large option requests, making the server waste CPU time on reading up to 4GB per request. A client could use this flaw to keep the NBD server from serving other requests, resulting in DoS.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03282 · 88.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2018-07-27T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 JUL 16:00Z
    The Network Block Device (NBD) server in Quick Emulator (QEMU) before 2.11 is vulnerable to a denial of service issue
    cvelistv5