Vigil@nce - systemd: memory corruption via alloca
March 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, openSUSE Leap, RHEL, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop, SLES, Ubuntu.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, denial of service on
service.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 10/01/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a memory corruption via alloca() of
systemd, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to
run code.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/systemd-memory-corruption-via-alloca-28232