Description
A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess. This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly lead to root privilege escalation. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
systemd systemd
unspecified to ≤ 239affected
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105747 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45714/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/ ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2091 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3222 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0593 ↗
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r1b103833cb5bc8466e24ff0ecc5e75b45a705334ab6a444e64e840a0%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E ↗
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html ↗
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10519 ↗