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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-15687): systemd vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-15687): systemd vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/26/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/15/2018
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

A race condition in chown_one() of systemd allows an attacker to cause systemd to set arbitrary permissions on arbitrary files. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-systemd

References

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