CVE-2019-3815
Published: 28 January 2019
A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free the memory allocated by set_iovec_field_free() to store the `_CMDLINE=` entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash. This issue only affects versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise since v219-62.2.
Priority
CVSS 3 base score: 3.3
Notes
Author | Note |
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mdeslaur | caused by security fix backport Ubuntu was not affected by this issue |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-3815
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3815
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian