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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:07:46 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: wouter@...ian.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: nbd-server

* [2011-05-17 10:38:20 +0200] Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In Debian the following was reported:
>nbd-server 2.9.21 has a NULL-pointer dereference in its negotiation
>phase, which allows unauthenticated users to DoS the server by causing
>the negotiation to fail (e.g., by specifying a non-existing name for an
>export).
>
>Filed as http://bugs.debian.org/627042. This affects only 2.9.21 so for us
>goes that only our unstable distribution is affected.
>
>We'd like to have a CVE name for this.

The Debian bug is really light on details, so here is the git commit
that fixes this:

http://nbd.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=nbd/nbd;a=commitdiff;h=ebbbe0b3ce5393fa42a259f5e03d549508586aaa

But I don't see any evidence that this _only_ affects 2.9.21.  Are we
sure that it doesn't affect earlier versions?  The reporter doesn't
indicate one way or the other.

CC'ing Wouter for clarification.

-- 
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team 

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