| Name | CVE-2019-3815 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1711-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| systemd (PTS) | bullseye | 247.3-7+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 247.3-7+deb11u6 | fixed |
| bookworm | 252.31-1~deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 257-2 | fixed |
| sid | 257.1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| systemd | source | jessie | 215-17+deb8u11 | | DLA-1711-1 | |
| systemd | source | stretch | 232-25+deb9u8 | | | |
| systemd | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- systemd <not-affected> (This only affected backports to older suites, not the version in sid)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1666690
For stable it affected DSA-4367-1 and was corrected in DSA-4367-2
specifically the backport of the fix for CVE-2018-16864.