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A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for...

Low severity Unreviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 10, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 28, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Last updated Feb 10, 2023

Severity

Low
3.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-3815

GHSA ID

GHSA-c7jw-qwf7-gqxx

Source code

No known source code

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