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.

Notes

caused by security fix backport
Ubuntu was not affected by this issue

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 3.3

Status

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