RHSA-2020:1167 — Security Advisory

An update for nbdkit is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Network Block Device (NBD) is a protocol for accessing hard disks and other disk-like devices over the network. The nbdkit toolkit utilizes NBD to create servers with minimal dependencies. The package contains plug-in support for the C and Python programming languages.

Security Fix(es):

• nbdkit: denial of service due to premature opening of back-end connection (CVE-2019-14850)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.