vulnerability

Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2018-16866)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jan 11, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

An out-of-bounds read has been found in the journald component of systemd >= v221 and < v240, in the syslog_parse_identifier() function in journald-syslog.c. A crafted syslog message whose last character is ':' can trigger this vulnerability to leak information about the content of the memory.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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