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prionPRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2022-45873
HistoryNov 23, 2022 - 11:15 p.m.

Design/Logic Flaw

2022-11-2323:15:00
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10
systemd
coredump
deadlock
parse_elf_object
vulnerability
exploitation
nested directory
backtrace
maxconnections
systemd-coredump.socket

5.3 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

systemd 250 and 251 allows local users to achieve a systemd-coredump deadlock by triggering a crash that has a long backtrace. This occurs in parse_elf_object in shared/elf-util.c. The exploitation methodology is to crash a binary calling the same function recursively, and put it in a deeply nested directory to make its backtrace large enough to cause the deadlock. This must be done 16 times when MaxConnections=16 is set for the systemd/units/systemd-coredump.socket file.