cve-2018-16888
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-01-14 22:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:39
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2091Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16888Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5960a34a524848cd722fd7ab7e2227eac10107b0f90d9d1e9c3caa74%40%3Cuser.cassandra.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190307-0007/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4269-1/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
The systemd Projectsystemd
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