Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting systemd/systemd package, versions [,190)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.44% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SYSTEMDSYSTEMD-2365464
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Oct 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Oct 2013

CVE-2013-4391  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade systemd/systemd to version 190 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound. Integer overflow in the valid_user_field function in journal/journald-native.c in systemd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large journal data field, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1