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F5 Networks: K22040951: systemd-journald vulnerability CVE-2019-3815

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F5 Networks: K22040951: systemd-journald vulnerability CVE-2019-3815

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/28/2019
Created
03/26/2020
Added
03/24/2020
Modified
12/07/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

References

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