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CVE details

CVE-2017-15119

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.

Score
5.8 medium
Published
2018-07-27
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (1)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
emulators/qemu-cheriqemu-cheri0.d20260108unaddressedbrooks@FreeBSD.org

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>qemu-cheri</name>
	<range><lt>2.11.0</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>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.</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2017-15119</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15119</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2018-07-27</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>