CVE-2019-3815

Low

Description

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.

SeverityLow
CVSS3.3
Exploit probability—
ProductRedhat Enterprise Linux Desktop
PublishedJan 28, 2019
First seenJan 28, 2019
Weakness typeCWE-401CWE-401

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop7.0—
redhat openshift_container_platform3.11—
redhat enterprise_linux_server7.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus7.6—
redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus7.6—
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation7.0—
debian debian_linux8.0—

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