Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting systemd-sysvinit package, versions <246.15-7.11.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (13th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES153-SYSTEMDSYSVINIT-2667327
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed23 Aug 2021

Introduced: 23 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-33910  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 systemd-sysvinit to version 246.15-7.11.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream systemd-sysvinit package and not the systemd-sysvinit package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 relevant fixed versions and status.

basic/unit-name.c in systemd prior to 246.15, 247.8, 248.5, and 249.1 has a Memory Allocation with an Excessive Size Value (involving strdupa and alloca for a pathname controlled by a local attacker) that results in an operating system crash.

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CVSS Scores

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