Deserialization of Untrusted Data The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package systemd  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-SYSTEMD-614397
  • published28 Oct 2018
  • disclosed26 Oct 2018

Introduced: 26 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-15686  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream systemd package and not the systemd package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.