Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting systemd/systemd package, versions [,38)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.4% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SYSTEMDSYSTEMD-2365473
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Mar 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Mar 2020

CVE-2012-1101  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade systemd/systemd to version 38 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) systemd 37-1 does not properly handle non-existent services, which causes a denial of service (failure of login procedure).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1