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Message-ID: <20110517184001.GB14491@celtic.nixsys.be>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 20:40:01 +0200
From: Wouter Verhelst <w@...r.be>
To: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: nbd-server
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:07:46AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
> * [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.
Yes, absolutely; 2.9.21 and 2.9.21a (diff between .21 and .21a is a
documentation-related file that wasn't added to Makefile.am). The bug
was introduced with this commit:
http://nbd.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=nbd/nbd;a=commit;h=9ea4e742ce6f1b7793d1edfca70427a8660aeffa
To be 100% sure, I just checked out the tree at the 2.9.20 tag and
recompiled; I couldn't reproduce it.
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