CVE-2019-3815

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 3.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 6 years ago

2019-01-28 15:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-09 23:49:00

Affected Software

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11

3.11

RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0

7.0

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0

7.0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Advanced mission critical Update Support (AUS) 7.6

7.6

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Extended Update Support (EUS) 7.6

7.6

RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

References

106632

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

RHBA-2019:0327

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2019:0201

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3815

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20190313 [SECURITY] [DLA 1711-1] systemd security update

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

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