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.

Risk Information

Base Score
3.3
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.125

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) libgudev1-219-62.el7_6.3.i686.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) libgudev1-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-libs-219-62.el7_6.3.i686.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-libs-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-sysv-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-devel-219-62.el7_6.3.i686.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-devel-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-python-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) libgudev1-devel-219-62.el7_6.3.i686.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) libgudev1-devel-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-networkd-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-resolved-219-62.el7_6.3.i686.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-resolved-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
Systemd security update (CESA-2019:0201) systemd-journal-gateway-219-62.el7_6.3.x86_64.rpmLinux
CVE-2019-3815NCM

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234