Access Restriction Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package systemd  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.21% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-SYSTEMD-623265
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed23 Jan 2017

Introduced: 23 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-10156  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (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 flaw in systemd v228 in /src/basic/fs-util.c caused world writable suid files to be created when using the systemd timers features, allowing local attackers to escalate their privileges to root. This is fixed in v229.