Off-by-one in nbdkit - CVE-2025-47711

 

Off-by-one in nbdkit - CVE-2025-47711

Published: July 14, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU112886
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-47711
CWE-ID: CWE-193
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an off-by-one error handling responses from its plugins regarding the status of data blocks. A remote client can request for a very large data range to trigger an off-by-one error and crash the server. 


Affected software

nbdkit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15
Server Applications Module
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
nbdkit-ocaml-plugin
nbdkit-vddk-plugin
nbdkit-help
nbdkit-bash-completion
nbdkit-server
nbdkit-python3-plugin
nbdkit-plugins
nbdkit-perl-plugin
nbdkit-ocaml-plugin-devel
nbdkit-libvirt-plugin
nbdkit-guestfs-plugin
nbdkit-devel
nbdkit-debugsource
nbdkit-debuginfo
nbdkit-basic-plugins
nbdkit-basic-filters
nbdkit
nbdkit-server-debuginfo
nbdkit-xz-filter-debuginfo
nbdkit-tar-filter-debuginfo
nbdkit-gzip-filter-debuginfo
nbdkit-nbd-plugin-debuginfo
nbdkit-curl-plugin-debuginfo
nbdkit-nbd-plugin
nbdkit-basic-plugins-debuginfo
nbdkit-ssh-plugin
nbdkit-gzip-filter
nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin
nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin-debuginfo
nbdkit-python-plugin-debuginfo
nbdkit-tmpdisk-plugin
nbdkit-basic-filters-debuginfo
nbdkit-curl-plugin
nbdkit-tar-filter
nbdkit-ssh-plugin-debuginfo
nbdkit-vddk-plugin-debuginfo
nbdkit-python-plugin
nbdkit-tmpdisk-plugin-debuginfo
nbdkit-xz-filter
nbdkit-example-plugins
nbdkit-example-plugins-debuginfo

How to mitigate CVE-2025-47711

Install updates from vendor's website.

nbdkit-ocaml-plugin - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-vddk-plugin - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-help - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-bash-completion - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-server - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-python3-plugin - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-plugins - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-perl-plugin - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-ocaml-plugin-devel - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-libvirt-plugin - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-guestfs-plugin - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-devel - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-debugsource - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-basic-plugins - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-basic-filters - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit - addressed in versions 1.29.11-2, 1.32.6-2
nbdkit-server-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-xz-filter-debuginfo - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-tar-filter-debuginfo - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-gzip-filter-debuginfo - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-nbd-plugin-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-curl-plugin-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-nbd-plugin - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-basic-plugins - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-basic-plugins-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-ssh-plugin - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-gzip-filter - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-server - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-vddk-plugin - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-linuxdisk-plugin-debuginfo - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-python-plugin-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-tmpdisk-plugin - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-basic-filters-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-debugsource - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-curl-plugin - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-devel - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-tar-filter - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-basic-filters - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-ssh-plugin-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-bash-completion - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-vddk-plugin-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-python-plugin - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-debuginfo - addressed in versions 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1, 1.40.6-150700.4.3.1
nbdkit-tmpdisk-plugin-debuginfo - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-xz-filter - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-example-plugins - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit-example-plugins-debuginfo - update to 1.36.5-150400.3.9.1
nbdkit - addressed in versions 1.38.6-1.fc40, 1.40.6-1.fc41, 1.42.3-1.fc42

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