CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-3815

3.3 LOW Published 2019-01-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-01-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-401

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat openshift container platform 3.11 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References