Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting systemd/systemd package, versions [,194)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SYSTEMDSYSTEMD-2365472
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Oct 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Oct 2013

CVE-2013-4393  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade systemd/systemd to version 194 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) journald in systemd, when the origin of native messages is set to file, allows local users to cause a denial of service (logging service blocking) via a crafted file descriptor.

CVSS Scores

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