A denial of service flaw was found in nbd: "The listener/root server process terminates on SIGPIPE during negotiation. This is hardly the desired behavior, since any malfunctioning client can brought the listener server down by closing the socket unexpectedly." Additional information: http://sourceforge.net/p/nbd/mailman/message/30410146/ Upstream patch: https://github.com/yoe/nbd/commit/741495cb08503fd32a9d22648e63b64390c601f4
Created nbd tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-6 [bug 1224078]