Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting systemd package, versions <232-25+deb9u10
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-SYSTEMD-305096
- published 28 Oct 2018
- disclosed 26 Oct 2018
Introduced: 26 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-15686 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
systemd
to version 232-25+deb9u10 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream systemd
package and not the systemd
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess. This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly lead to root privilege escalation. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.