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HistoryAug 31, 2023 - 4:54 p.m.

Moderate: systemd security and bug fix update

2023-08-3116:54:20
Google
osv.dev
8
system manager
linux
privilege escalation
cve
bug fixes
sysvinit
service control logic

7.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

16.4%

The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

Security Fix(es):

  • systemd: privilege escalation via the less pager (CVE-2023-26604)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

  • systemd-pstore crashes when attempting to move standalone files out of /sys/fs/pstore (BZ#2190153)