5.5 Medium
CVSS3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/076b807be472630692c5348c60d0c2b7b28ad437
github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/25055#issuecomment-1313733553
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2022-45873
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-45873
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-45873
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5928-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-45873