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1 vulnerability found for libnbd by redhat
CVE-2023-5215 (GCVE-0-2023-5215)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-28 13:55
Modified
2025-11-08 08:55
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-241 - Improper Handling of Unexpected Data Type
Summary
A flaw was found in libnbd. A server can reply with a block size larger than 2^63 (the NBD spec states the size is a 64-bit unsigned value). This issue could lead to an application crash or other unintended behavior for NBD clients that doesn't treat the return value of the nbd_get_size() function correctly.
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 |
Unaffected: 0:1.18.1-3.el9 < * cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb |
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