CVE-2019-3815CWE-401

A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Low · published January 28, 2019

CVSS v3.0
3.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
33.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
3.3 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00400 · 33.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2019-01-28T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 JAN 15:00Z
    A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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