Reachable Assertion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libnbd  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBNBD-6042201
  • published1 Nov 2023
  • disclosed31 Oct 2023

Introduced: 31 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-5871  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libnbd package and not the libnbd package as distributed by RHEL.

A flaw was found in libnbd, due to a malicious Network Block Device (NBD), a protocol for accessing Block Devices such as hard disks over a Network. This issue may allow a malicious NBD server to cause a Denial of Service.