Race Condition Affecting systemd package, versions <215-17+deb8u8
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-SYSTEMD-305069
- published 16 Feb 2018
- disclosed 16 Feb 2018
Introduced: 16 Feb 2018
CVE-2018-1049 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8 systemd to version 215-17+deb8u8 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In systemd prior to 234 a race condition exists between .mount and .automount units such that automount requests from kernel may not be serviced by systemd resulting in kernel holding the mountpoint and any processes that try to use said mount will hang. A race condition like this may lead to denial of service, until mount points are unmounted.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1049
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1534701
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0260
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041520
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-1049
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3558-1/