Bug 859051 (CVE-2013-4391) - CVE-2013-4391 systemd: Integer overflow, leading to heap-based buffer overflow by processing native messages
Summary: CVE-2013-4391 systemd: Integer overflow, leading to heap-based buffer overflo...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2013-4391
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 858746
Blocks: 859151
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Reported: 2012-09-20 13:05 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2023-05-12 17:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-02-12 06:07:51 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-09-20 13:05:54 UTC 
An integer overflow, leading to heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way journald functionality of systemd, a system and service manager, processed native messages. A local attacker could provide a specially-crafted packet that when processed by systemd would lead to systemd daemon crash or, potentially, arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running the daemon.

Issue found by Florian Weimer, Red Hat Product Security Team

Upstream patch:
[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=505b6a61c22d5565e9308045c7b9bf79f7d0517e
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-23 07:05:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the version of systemd as shipped with Fedora 18 and 19. (Current versions are not affected)
Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-10-01 22:53:22 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of the Red Hat Product Security Team.
Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2013-10-01 22:53:49 UTC 
This was assigned CVE-2013-4391:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/01/9
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