Race Condition Affecting systemd package, versions <239-11
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EPSS
0.26% (66th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-SYSTEMD-1560721
- published 28 Oct 2018
- disclosed 26 Oct 2018
Introduced: 26 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-15687 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 systemd to version 239-11 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:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
A race condition in chown_one() of systemd allows an attacker to cause systemd to set arbitrary permissions on arbitrary files. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15687
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45715/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10517/commits
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105748
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-15687
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/
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