{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14851","details":"A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit. A client issuing a certain sequence of commands could possibly trigger an assertion failure, causing nbdkit to exit. This issue only affected nbdkit versions 1.12.7, 1.14.1, and 1.15.1.","modified":"2026-04-22T12:11:40.439048Z","published":"2021-03-18T20:15:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2019-14851"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14851"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00272.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/a6b88b195a959b17524d1c8353fd425d4891dc5f"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/bf0d61883a2f02f4388ec10dc92d4c61c093679e"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/libguestfs/nbdkit/commit/b2bc6683ea3cd1f6be694e8a681dfa411b7d15f3"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-14851"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"nbdkit","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/nbdkit@1.1.11-1build1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.1.10-1","1.1.11-1","1.1.11-1build1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1.1.11-1build1","binary_name":"nbdkit"},{"binary_version":"1.1.11-1build1","binary_name":"nbdkit-plugin-guestfs"},{"binary_version":"1.1.11-1build1","binary_name":"nbdkit-plugin-libvirt"},{"binary_version":"1.1.11-1build1","binary_name":"nbdkit-plugin-perl"},{"binary_version":"1.1.11-1build1","binary_name":"nbdkit-plugin-python"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14851.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}