Deserialization of Untrusted Data The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nss-systemd (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published14 Apr 2022
- disclosed7 Nov 2018
Introduced: 7 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-15686 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nss-systemd package and not the nss-systemd package as distributed by SLES.
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://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-15686.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1113665
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1120323
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105747
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2091
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3222
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0593
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10519
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45714/
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html