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Oracle Linux: CVE-2022-45873: ELSA-2023-0954: systemd security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2022-45873: ELSA-2023-0954: systemd security update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/18/2022
Created
03/04/2023
Added
03/02/2023
Modified
11/22/2024

Description

systemd 250 and 251 allows local users to achieve a systemd-coredump deadlock by triggering a crash that has a long backtrace. This occurs in parse_elf_object in shared/elf-util.c. The exploitation methodology is to crash a binary calling the same function recursively, and put it in a deeply nested directory to make its backtrace large enough to cause the deadlock. This must be done 16 times when MaxConnections=16 is set for the systemd/units/systemd-coredump.socket file. A flaw was found in the systemd-coredump utility of systemd. When an application crashes, the systemd-coredump utility is called twice, once by the kernel and the second time in the systemd-coredump@.service to write the data, process, and save the core file. Communication between the programs is made through a pipe, and when there is too much data through a long backtrace or many linked libraries, the pipe blocks while waiting for the data, resulting in a timeout of the systemd-coredump@.service.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-container
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-journal-remote
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-libs
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-oomd
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-pam
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-resolved
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-rpm-macros
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-systemd-udev

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