vulnerability

Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-6454: systemd: Insufficient input validation in bus_process_object() resulting in PID 1 crash

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 21, 2019
Added
Dec 29, 2020
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in sd-bus in systemd 239. bus_process_object() in libsystemd/sd-bus/bus-objects.c allocates a variable-length stack buffer for temporarily storing the object path of incoming D-Bus messages. An unprivileged local user can exploit this by sending a specially crafted message to PID1, causing the stack pointer to jump over the stack guard pages into an unmapped memory region and trigger a denial of service (systemd PID1 crash and kernel panic).

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos
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