Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-3815 - Memory Leak vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
LOW Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
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OS | 5 | |
OS | 1 | |
Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1345.NASL description According to the version of the systemd packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864.(CVE-2019-3815) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2019-05-06 plugin id 124631 published 2019-05-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/124631 title EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2019-1345) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(124631); script_version("1.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/05/04"); script_cve_id( "CVE-2019-3815" ); script_name(english:"EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2019-1345)"); script_summary(english:"Checks the rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value: "The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update."); script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value: "According to the version of the systemd packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864.(CVE-2019-3815) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues."); # https://developer.huaweicloud.com/ict/en/site-euleros/euleros/security-advisories/EulerOS-SA-2019-1345 script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b3705de8"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value: "Update the affected systemd package."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/04/26"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/05/06"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libgudev1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:libgudev1-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-libs"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-python"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:systemd-sysv"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_family(english:"Huawei Local Security Checks"); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/EulerOS/release", "Host/EulerOS/rpm-list", "Host/EulerOS/sp"); script_exclude_keys("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || release !~ "^EulerOS") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS"); if (release !~ "^EulerOS release 2\.0(\D|$)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0"); sp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/sp"); if (isnull(sp) || sp !~ "^(3)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP3"); uvp = get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/uvp_version"); if (!empty_or_null(uvp)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "EulerOS 2.0 SP3", "EulerOS UVP " + uvp); if (!get_kb_item("Host/EulerOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && "aarch64" >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "EulerOS", cpu); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_ARCH_NOT, "i686 / x86_64", cpu); flag = 0; pkgs = ["libgudev1-219-30.6.h56", "libgudev1-devel-219-30.6.h56", "systemd-219-30.6.h56", "systemd-devel-219-30.6.h56", "systemd-libs-219-30.6.h56", "systemd-python-219-30.6.h56", "systemd-sysv-219-30.6.h56"]; foreach (pkg in pkgs) if (rpm_check(release:"EulerOS-2.0", sp:"3", reference:pkg)) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_NOTE, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "systemd"); }
NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2019-0201.NASL description An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section. The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. Security Fix(es) : * systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864 (CVE-2019-3815) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-04 plugin id 121549 published 2019-02-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121549 title CentOS 7 : systemd (CESA-2019:0201) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2019:0201 and # CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2019:0201 respectively. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(121549); script_version("1.5"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/02/20"); script_cve_id("CVE-2019-3815"); script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2019:0201"); script_name(english:"CentOS 7 : systemd (CESA-2019:0201)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section. The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. Security Fix(es) : * systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864 (CVE-2019-3815) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section." ); # https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2019-February/023163.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?db4f09e7" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected systemd packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2019-3815"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgudev1"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgudev1-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-devel"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-journal-gateway"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-libs"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-networkd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-python"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-resolved"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:systemd-sysv"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:7"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2019/01/28"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/02/01"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/02/04"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/release"); if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^7([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 7.x", "CentOS " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libgudev1-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"libgudev1-devel-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"systemd-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"systemd-devel-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"systemd-journal-gateway-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"systemd-libs-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"systemd-networkd-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"systemd-python-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"systemd-resolved-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-7", cpu:"x86_64", reference:"systemd-sysv-219-62.el7_6.3")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_NOTE, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libgudev1 / libgudev1-devel / systemd / systemd-devel / etc"); }
NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20190129_SYSTEMD_ON_SL7_X.NASL description Security Fix(es) : - systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864 (CVE-2019-3815) last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2019-01-30 plugin id 121457 published 2019-01-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121457 title Scientific Linux Security Update : systemd on SL7.x x86_64 (20190129) NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-1711.NASL description A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in systemd-journald. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free allocated memory to store the `_CMDLINE=` entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash. Note that as the systemd-journald service is not restarted automatically a restart of the service or more safely a reboot is advised. For Debian 8 last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 122826 published 2019-03-14 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122826 title Debian DLA-1711-1 : systemd security update NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1045.NASL description According to the versions of the systemd packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - systemd: Out-of-bounds heap write in systemd-networkd dhcpv6 option handling (CVE-2018-15688) - systemd: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long cmdline (CVE-2018-16864) - systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries (CVE-2018-16865) - systemd: Assertion failure when PID 1 receives a zero-length message over notify socket(CVE-2016-7795) - systemd: Unsafe handling of hard links allowing privilege escalation(CVE-2017-18078) - systemd: Out-of-bounds write in systemd-resolved due to allocating too small buffer in dns_packet_new(CVE-2017-9445) - systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864 (CVE-2019-3815) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2019-02-15 plugin id 122218 published 2019-02-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122218 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2019-1045) NASL family F5 Networks Local Security Checks NASL id F5_BIGIP_SOL22040951.NASL 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.(CVE-2019-3815) Impact A local attacker may be able to cause excessive resource consumption on the BIG-IP system, potentially leading to a failover event. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2020-05-01 plugin id 136209 published 2020-05-01 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/136209 title F5 Networks BIG-IP : systemd-journald vulnerability (K22040951) NASL family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks NASL id ORACLELINUX_ELSA-2019-0201.NASL description From Red Hat Security Advisory 2019:0201 : An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section. The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. Security Fix(es) : * systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864 (CVE-2019-3815) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2019-01-31 plugin id 121498 published 2019-01-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121498 title Oracle Linux 7 : systemd (ELSA-2019-0201) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1128.NASL description According to the versions of the systemd packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864 (CVE-2019-3815) - systemd: Insufficient input validation in bus_process_object() resulting in PID 1 crash (CVE-2019-6454) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-06 modified 2019-04-02 plugin id 123602 published 2019-04-02 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/123602 title EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : systemd (EulerOS-SA-2019-1128) NASL family NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks NASL id NEWSTART_CGSL_NS-SA-2019-0057_SYSTEMD.NASL description The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has systemd packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - 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. (CVE-2019-3815) - It was discovered that systemd allocates a buffer large enough to store the path field of a dbus message without performing enough checks. A local attacker may trigger this flaw by sending a dbus message to systemd with a large path making systemd crash or possibly elevating his privileges. (CVE-2019-6454) Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 127248 published 2019-08-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/127248 title NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : systemd Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0057) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2019-0201.NASL description An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link (s) in the References section. The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. Security Fix(es) : * systemd: memory leak in journald-server.c introduced by fix for CVE-2018-16864 (CVE-2019-3815) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. last seen 2020-03-18 modified 2019-01-30 plugin id 121452 published 2019-01-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/121452 title RHEL 7 : systemd (RHSA-2019:0201)
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