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Fedora 41: libnbd Critical NBD Performance Fix FEDORA-2025-ffa97eb16f

New upstream stable version 1.22.5. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2025-ffa97eb16f 2025-11-08 02:54:10.232995+00:00 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : libnbd Product : Fedora 41 Version : 1.22.5 Release : 1.fc41 URL : https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/libnbd Summary : NBD client library in userspace Description : NBD \u2014 Network Block Device \u2014 is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network. This is the NBD client library in userspace, a simple library for writing NBD clients. The key features are: * Synchronous and asynchronous APIs, both for ease of use and for writing non-blocking, multithreaded clients. * High performance. * Minimal dependencies for the basic library. * Well-documented, stable API. * Bindings in several programming languages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: New upstream stable version 1.22.5 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Thu Oct 23 2025 Richard W.M. Jones - 1.22.5-1 - New upstream stable version 1.22.5 - Fixes security issue with nbd+ssh URIs https://lists.libguestfs.org/archives/list/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./thread/YZMBF3SJRWTRVT5L3KWSNHITFTRMQNTT/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-ffa97eb16f' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be foundat https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Fedora 41 libnbd update fixes security issue and enhances performance for userspace NBD clients.. Fedora 41, libnbd, NBD client, performance, software update. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team

Nov 08, 2025 •Critical Fedora