Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20193815000
Revision Date:2019-01-28Version:1
Title:CVE-2019-3815 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2019-3815
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'systemd' package in bionic is not affected.
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