CVE-2019-3815

A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free the memory allocated by set_iovec_field_free() to store the _CMDLINE= entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash. This issue only affects versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise since v219-62.2.

Published: Jan 28, 2019
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2019-3815
Severity: Low
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Low
Score: 3.3
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v2:

Severity: Low
Score: 2.1
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-401

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
redhat / enterprise_linux_desktop	7.0	7.0.x
redhat / enterprise_linux_workstation	7.0	7.0.x
redhat / enterprise_linux_server	7.0	7.0.x
redhat / enterprise_linux_server_eus	7.6	7.6.x
redhat / enterprise_linux_server_aus	7.6	7.6.x
redhat / openshift_container_platform	3.11	3.11.x
debian / debian_linux	8.0	8.0.x

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106632
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0201
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3815
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00013.html

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CVE-2019-3815

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