CVE-2018-16866mediumCWE-125CWE-200

CVE-2018-16866: medium-severity vulnerability in The systemd Project systemd

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 4.3epss 1.1%
exploitation probability
1.1%top 37% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
An out of bounds read was discovered in systemd-journald in the way it parses log messages that terminate with a colon ':'. A local attacker can use this flaw to disclose process memory data. Versions from v221 to v239 are vulnerable.
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected products
The systemd Project · systemd
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References
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152841/System-Down-A-systemd-journald-Exploit.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2091https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3222https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0593https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16866http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/May/21https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/May/25https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-07https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190117-0001/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3855-1/https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4367https://www.qualys.com/2019/01/09/system-down/system-down.txt