CVE-2019-3815

2019-01-2815:00:00

CWE-401

redhat

www.cve.org

3.3 Low

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

LOW

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

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.2%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "systemd",
    "vendor": "The systemd Project",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "v219-62.2 and newer"
      }
    ]
  }
]