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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16888: systemd security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16888: systemd security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/14/2019
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
12/18/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libgudev1
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-libgudev1-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-systemd
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-systemd-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-systemd-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-systemd-python
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-systemd-sysv

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