VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-15119

CVSS score5.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.28%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-07-27
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references