CVE-2021-3716 PUBLISHED

Reported by redhat · Published March 2, 2022

A flaw was found in nbdkit due to to improperly caching plaintext state across the STARTTLS encryption boundary. A MitM attacker could use this flaw to inject a plaintext NBD_OPT_STRUCTURED_REPLY before proxying everything else a client sends to the server, potentially leading the client to terminate the NBD session. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
n/anbdkitAffects nbdkit v1.12 through v1.26.4 | Fixedin nbdkit v1.26.5
n/anbdkitAffects nbdkit v1.12 through v1.26.4 | Fixedin nbdkit v1.26.5

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