CVE-2005-3534

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the Network Block Device (nbd) server 2.7.5 and earlier, and 2.8.0 through 2.8.2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large request, which is written past the end of the buffer because nbd does not account for memory taken by the reply header.

Affected products

Wouter Verhelst Nbd: through 2.7.5; 2.8.0, 2.8.2

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116314
http://secunia.com/advisories/18135
http://secunia.com/advisories/18171
http://secunia.com/advisories/18209
http://secunia.com/advisories/18315
http://secunia.com/advisories/18503
http://secunia.com/advisories/43353
http://secunia.com/advisories/43610
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9201144&forum_id=40388
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=380202&group_id=13229
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=380210&group_id=13229
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-924

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