CVE-2023-5215

medium

Description

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.

References

https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2023-September/032635.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2241041

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5215

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2204

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-09-28

Updated: 2024-04-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium