cve-2018-15686
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-26 14:00
Modified
2024-09-16 23:35
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
systemd: reexec state injection: fgets() on overlong lines leads to line splitting
References
security@ubuntu.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105747Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@ubuntu.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2091Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3222Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0593Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10519Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
security@ubuntu.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45714/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@ubuntu.comhttps://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.htmlThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
systemdsystemd
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