Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting systemd package, versions <239-12
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-SYSTEMD-529548
- published 28 Oct 2018
- disclosed 26 Oct 2018
Introduced: 26 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-15686 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 systemd to version 239-12 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream systemd package and not the systemd package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess. This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly lead to root privilege escalation. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15686
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45714/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10519
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3222
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0593
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2091
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105747
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-15686
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E