Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to security vulnerability (CVE-2019-3815)

Summary

IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI) in response to security vulnerability. The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. 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.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-3815
**DESCRIPTION:**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.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/156227 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

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