CVE-2017-15119

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Modified
Published: 27 Jul 2018, 16:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 19:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
35/100
CVSS Score
8.6 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.56% LOW
2% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 Jul 2018, 16:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 19:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 8.6CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.56%• Percentile: 82%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    14.04 | 16.04 | 17.10

  • debian•debian_linux

    9.0

  • qemu•qemu

    < 2.11.0 | 2.11

  • redhat•virtualization

    4.0

References (8)