CVE-2018-16864

An allocation of memory without limits, that could result in the stack clashing with another memory region, was discovered in systemd-journald when a program with long command line arguments calls syslog. A local attacker may use this flaw to crash systemd-journald or escalate his privileges...

systemd-journald Memory Corruption / Information Leak Vulnerability

This is a thorough analysis of how Qualys approached exploiting three vulnerabilities in systemd-journald. Although they have not released formal exploits yet, they detail in here is useful in understanding the flaws. Qualys Security Advisory System Down: A systemd-journald exploit...

New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions

Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating systems, that could allow unprivileged local attackers or malicious programs to gain root access on the targeted systems. The vulnerabilities, assigned as...

New Systemd Privilege Escalation Flaws Affect Most Linux Distributions

Security researchers have discovered three vulnerabilities in Systemd, a popular init system and service manager for most Linux operating systems, that could allow unprivileged local attackers or malicious programs to gain root access on the targeted systems. The vulnerabilities, assigned as...

Home Download Photon OS User Documentation FAQ Security Advisories Related Information Lightwave - PHSA-2019-2.0-0120

An update of 'systemd', 'python3', 'kubernetes-dashboard' packages of Photon OS has been released...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2019:0053-1)

This update for systemd fixes the following issues : Fix security vulnerabilities CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865 bsc1120323: Both issues were memory corruptions via attacker-controlled alloca which could have been used to gain root privileges by a local attacker. Fix security vulnerability...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2019:0054-1)

This update for systemd fixes the following issues : Fix security vulnerabilities CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865 bsc1120323: Both issues were memory corruptions via attacker-controlled alloca which could have been used to gain root privileges by a local attacker. Fix security vulnerability...

Amazon Linux 2 : systemd (ALAS-2019-1141)

Large syslogd messages sent to journald can cause stack corruption, causing journald to crash. The version of systemd on Amazon Linux 2 is not vulnerable to privilege escalation in this case. CVE-2018-16864 Large native messages to journald can cause stack corruption, leading to possible local...

SUSE-SU-2019:0053-1 Security update for systemd

This update for systemd fixes the following issues: Fix security vulnerabilities CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865 bsc1120323: Both issues were memory corruptions via attacker-controlled alloca which could have been used to gain root privileges by a local attacker. Fix security vulnerability...

polkit - Temporary auth Hijacking via PID Reuse and Non-atomic Fork Exploit

/ When a non-root user attempts to e.g. control systemd units in the system instance from an active session over DBus, the access is gated by a polkit policy that requires "authadminkeep" auth. This results in an auth prompt being shown to the user, asking the user to confirm the action by enteri...

[ASA-201901-4] systemd: multiple issues

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201901-4 ========================================= Severity: Medium Date : 2019-01-08 CVE-ID : CVE-2018-6954 CVE-2018-16866 Package : systemd Type : multiple issues Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-615 Summary ======= The package systemd befor...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 9 package systemd version 1:240-alt3

Jan. 8, 2019 Mikhail Efremov 1:240-alt3 - journald: set a limit on the number of fields once more. - Backported patches from upstream fixes: CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865...

Important: systemd

Issue Overview: Large syslogd messages sent to journald can cause stack corruption, causing journald to crash. The version of systemd on Amazon Linux 2 is not vulnerable to privilege escalation in this case. CVE-2018-16864 Large native messages to journald can cause stack corruption, leading to...

Fedora 28 : php (2018-b13b720a3d)

PHP version 7.2.4 29 Mar 2018 Core: - Fixed bug php76025 Segfault while throwing exception in errorhandler. Dmitry, Laruence - Fixed bug php76044 'date: illegal option -- -' in ./configure on FreeBSD. Anatol FPM: - Fixed bug php75605 Dumpable FPM child processes allow bypassing opcache access...

Fedora 28 : knot-resolver (2018-c894f896fd)

Knot Resolver 2.4.0 2018-07-03 ================================ Incompatible changes -------------------- - minimal libknot version is now 2.6.7 to pull in latest fixes 366 Security -------- - fix a rare case of zones incorrectly dowgraded to insecure status !576 New features ------------ - TLS...

Fedora 28 : uwsgi (2018-acfce682f4)

Fix building in Rawhide 1556525 Jakub Jelen - Disable tcpwrappers for Fedora 28 and newer Jakub Jelen --- - Modernize and generalize building of Python subpackages : - replace python with python2 - use appropriate macros for when refering to Python 3 - prefix Python-dependent plugins with the...

Fedora 29 : systemd (2018-c402eea18b)

Fix a local vulnerability from a race condition in chown-recursive CVE-2018-15687, 1639076 - Fix a local vulnerability from invalid handling of long lines in state deserialization CVE-2018-15686, 1639071 - Fix a remote vulnerability in DHCPv6 in systemd-networkd CVE-2018-15688, 1639067 - The DHCP...

CVE-2018-16888

It was discovered systemd does not correctly check the content of PIDFile files before using it to kill processes. When a service is run from an unprivileged user e.g. User field set in the service file, a local attacker who is able to write to the PIDFile of the mentioned service may use this fl...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : slurm (SUSE-SU-2018:0987-1)

This update for slurm fixes the following issues : - Fix interaction with systemd: systemd expects that a daemonizing process doesn't go away until the PID file with it PID of the daemon has bee written bsc1084125. - Make sure systemd services get restarted only when all packages are in a...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2018:3644-1)

This update for systemd fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : CVE-2018-15688: A buffer overflow vulnerability in the dhcp6 client of systemd allowed a malicious dhcp6 server to overwrite heap memory in systemd-networkd. bsc1113632 CVE-2018-15686: A vulnerability in unitdeserialize ...