CVE-2018-16866

CVSS 4.3 MEDIUMEPSS 1.1%CWE-125 CWE-200

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 4.3EPSS 1.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch referenciado

Lifecycle

11 Jan 2019Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

An out of bounds read was discovered in systemd-journald in the way it parses log messages that terminate with a colon ':'. A local attacker can use this flaw to disclose process memory data. Versions from v221 to v239 are vulnerable.

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

The systemd Project · systemd

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References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152841/System-Down-A-systemd-journald-Exploit.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2091 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3222 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0593 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16866 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/May/21 https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/25 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-07 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190117-0001/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3855-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4367 https://www.qualys.com/2019/01/09/system-down/system-down.txt