Memory Leak Affecting systemd package, versions <232-25+deb9u8
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-SYSTEMD-305184
- published 18 Jan 2019
- disclosed 28 Jan 2019
Introduced: 18 Jan 2019
CVE-2019-3815 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
systemd
to version 232-25+deb9u8 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 memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free the memory allocated by set_iovec_field_free() to store the _CMDLINE=
entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash. This issue only affects versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise since v219-62.2.