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SUSE: CVE-2018-15686: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-15686: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/26/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/10/2018
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess. This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly lead to root privilege escalation. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-0
  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libsystemd0
  • suse-upgrade-libsystemd0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libsystemd0-mini
  • suse-upgrade-libudev-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libudev-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libudev-mini-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libudev-mini1
  • suse-upgrade-libudev1
  • suse-upgrade-libudev1-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-nss-myhostname
  • suse-upgrade-nss-myhostname-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-nss-mymachines
  • suse-upgrade-nss-mymachines-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-nss-systemd
  • suse-upgrade-systemd
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-bash-completion
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-container
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-coredump
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-devel
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-doc
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-journal-remote
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-lang
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-logger
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-mini
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-mini-bash-completion
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-mini-container-mini
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-mini-coredump-mini
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-mini-devel
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-mini-sysvinit
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-sysvinit
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-gudev-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-udev
  • suse-upgrade-udev-mini

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:3644-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3767-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3767-2
  • SUSE-SU-2019:0053-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:0054-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:0054-2
  • USN-3816-1
  • USN-3816-2
  • USN-3816-3
  • CVE-2018-15686
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