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6 vulnerabilities by The systemd Project
CVE-2019-3842 (GCVE-0-2019-3842)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-04-09 20:25 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:47
VLAI?
Summary
In systemd before v242-rc4, it was discovered that pam_systemd does not properly sanitize the environment before using the XDG_SEAT variable. It is possible for an attacker, in some particular configurations, to set a XDG_SEAT environment variable which allows for commands to be checked against polkit policies using the "allow_active" element rather than "allow_any".
Severity ?
4.5 (Medium)
CWE
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Affected:
v242-rc4
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CVE-2019-3815 (GCVE-0-2019-3815)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-28 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 19:19
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
CWE
Assigner
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CVE-2018-16888 (GCVE-0-2018-16888)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-14 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:39
VLAI?
Summary
It was discovered systemd does not correctly check the content of PIDFile files before using it to kill processes. When a service is run from an unprivileged user (e.g. User field set in the service file), a local attacker who is able to write to the PIDFile of the mentioned service may use this flaw to trick systemd into killing other services and/or privileged processes. Versions before v237 are vulnerable.
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium)
CWE
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CVE-2018-16865 (GCVE-0-2018-16865)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-11 21:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:51
VLAI?
Summary
An allocation of memory without limits, that could result in the stack clashing with another memory region, was discovered in systemd-journald when many entries are sent to the journal socket. A local attacker, or a remote one if systemd-journal-remote is used, may use this flaw to crash systemd-journald or execute code with journald privileges. Versions through v240 are vulnerable.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
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CVE-2018-16864 (GCVE-0-2018-16864)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-11 20:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:52
VLAI?
Summary
An allocation of memory without limits, that could result in the stack clashing with another memory region, was discovered in systemd-journald when a program with long command line arguments calls syslog. A local attacker may use this flaw to crash systemd-journald or escalate his privileges. Versions through v240 are vulnerable.
Severity ?
7.4 (High)
CWE
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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CVE-2018-16866 (GCVE-0-2018-16866)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-01-11 19:00 – Updated: 2025-06-09 15:41
VLAI?
Summary
An out of bounds read was discovered in systemd-journald in the way it parses log messages that terminate with a colon ':'. A local attacker can use this flaw to disclose process memory data. Versions from v221 to v239 are vulnerable.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| The systemd Project | systemd |
Affected:
from v221 to v239
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