systemd-resolved through 233 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted DNS response with an empty question section.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06, has systemd packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous     Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this     flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by sending     specially crafted dbus messages. (CVE-2020-1712)

  - systemd-tmpfiles in systemd through 237 mishandles symlinks present in non-terminal path components, which     allows local users to obtain ownership of arbitrary files via vectors involving creation of a directory     and a file under that directory, and later replacing that directory with a symlink. This occurs even if     the fs.protected_symlinks sysctl is turned on. (CVE-2018-6954)

  - systemd-resolved through 233 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a     crafted DNS response with an empty question section. (CVE-2017-9217)

  - In systemd through 233, certain sizes passed to dns_packet_new in systemd-resolved can cause it to     allocate a buffer that's too small. A malicious DNS server can exploit this via a response with a     specially crafted TCP payload to trick systemd-resolved into allocating a buffer that's too small, and     subsequently write arbitrary data beyond the end of it. (CVE-2017-9445)

  - A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd     re-execution via NotifyAccess. This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly     lead to root privilege escalation. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.
    (CVE-2018-15686)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the systemd package has been released.

An update of [systemd,curl,glibc,freetype2] packages for PhotonOS has been released.

This update for systemd provides several fixes and enhancements.
Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2017-9217: NULL pointer dereferencing that could     lead to resolved aborting. (bsc#1040614)

  - CVE-2017-9445: Possible out-of-bounds write triggered by     a specially crafted TCP payload from a DNS server.
    (bsc#1045290) The update also fixed several non-security     bugs :

  - core/mount: Use the '-c' flag to not canonicalize paths     when calling /bin/umount

  - automount: Handle expire_tokens when the mount unit     changes its state (bsc#1040942)

  - automount: Rework propagation between automount and     mount units

  - build: Make sure tmpfiles.d/systemd-remote.conf get     installed when necessary

  - build: Fix systemd-journal-upload installation

  - basic: Detect XEN Dom0 as no virtualization     (bsc#1036873)

  - virt: Make sure some errors are not ignored

  - fstab-generator: Do not skip Before= ordering for noauto     mountpoints

  - fstab-gen: Do not convert device timeout into seconds     when initializing JobTimeoutSec

  - core/device: Use JobRunningTimeoutSec= for device units     (bsc#1004995)

  - fstab-generator: Apply the _netdev option also to device     units (bsc#1004995)

  - job: Add JobRunningTimeoutSec for JOB_RUNNING state     (bsc#1004995)

  - job: Ensure JobRunningTimeoutSec= survives serialization     (bsc#1004995)

  - rules: Export NVMe WWID udev attribute (bsc#1038865)

  - rules: Introduce disk/by-id (model_serial) symbolic     links for NVMe drives

  - rules: Add rules for NVMe devices

  - sysusers: Make group shadow support configurable     (bsc#1029516)

  - core: When deserializing a unit, fully restore its     cgroup state (bsc#1029102)

  - core: Introduce     cg_mask_from_string()/cg_mask_to_string()

  - core:execute: Fix handling failures of calling fork() in     exec_spawn() (bsc#1040258)

  - Fix systemd-sysv-convert when a package starts shipping     service units (bsc#982303) The database might be missing     when upgrading a package which was shipping no sysv init     scripts nor unit files (at the time

    --save was called) but the new version start shipping     unit files.

  - Disable group shadow support (bsc#1029516)

  - Only check signature job error if signature job exists     (bsc#1043758)

  - Automounter issue in combination with NFS volumes     (bsc#1040968)

  - Missing symbolic link for SAS device in     /dev/disk/by-path (bsc#1040153)

  - Add minimal support for boot.d/* scripts in     systemd-sysv-convert (bsc#1046750)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Mostly a bugfix update, but includes an update of the keyboard/mouse hwdb and various small fixes and a minor security issue and a boot issue on virtualized systems with no VGA console.

No need to reboot or log out.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for systemd fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2017-9217: resolved: Fix NULL pointer p->question     dereferencing that could lead to resolved aborting     (bsc#1040614)

The update also fixed several non-security bugs :

  - core/mount: Use the '-c' flag to not canonicalize paths     when calling /bin/umount

  - automount: Handle expire_tokens when the mount unit     changes its state (bsc#1040942)

  - automount: Rework propagation between automount and     mount units

  - build: Make sure tmpfiles.d/systemd-remote.conf get     installed when necessary

  - build: Fix systemd-journal-upload installation

  - basic: Detect XEN Dom0 as no virtualization     (bsc#1036873)

  - virt: Make sure some errors are not ignored

  - fstab-generator: Do not skip Before= ordering for noauto     mountpoints

  - fstab-gen: Do not convert device timeout into seconds     when initializing JobTimeoutSec

  - core/device: Use JobRunningTimeoutSec= for device units     (bsc#1004995)

  - fstab-generator: Apply the _netdev option also to device     units (bsc#1004995)

  - job: Add JobRunningTimeoutSec for JOB_RUNNING state     (bsc#1004995)

  - job: Ensure JobRunningTimeoutSec= survives serialization     (bsc#1004995)

  - rules: Export NVMe WWID udev attribute (bsc#1038865)

  - rules: Introduce disk/by-id (model_serial) symbolic     links for NVMe drives

  - rules: Add rules for NVMe devices

  - sysusers: Make group shadow support configurable     (bsc#1029516)

  - core: When deserializing a unit, fully restore its     cgroup state (bsc#1029102)

  - core: Introduce     cg_mask_from_string()/cg_mask_to_string()

  - core:execute: Fix handling failures of calling fork() in     exec_spawn() (bsc#1040258)

  - Fix systemd-sysv-convert when a package starts shipping     service units (bsc#982303) The database might be missing     when upgrading a package which was shipping no sysv init     scripts nor unit files (at the time --save was called)     but the new version start shipping unit files.

  - Disable group shadow support (bsc#1029516)

  - Only check signature job error if signature job exists     (bsc#1043758)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project.

This update for systemd fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed :

  - CVE-2017-9217: resolved: Fix NULL pointer p->question     dereferencing that could lead to resolved aborting     (bsc#1040614) The update also fixed several non-security     bugs :

  - core/mount: Use the '-c' flag to not canonicalize paths     when calling /bin/umount

  - automount: Handle expire_tokens when the mount unit     changes its state (bsc#1040942)

  - automount: Rework propagation between automount and     mount units

  - build: Make sure tmpfiles.d/systemd-remote.conf get     installed when necessary

  - build: Fix systemd-journal-upload installation

  - basic: Detect XEN Dom0 as no virtualization     (bsc#1036873)

  - virt: Make sure some errors are not ignored

  - fstab-generator: Do not skip Before= ordering for noauto     mountpoints

  - fstab-gen: Do not convert device timeout into seconds     when initializing JobTimeoutSec

  - core/device: Use JobRunningTimeoutSec= for device units     (bsc#1004995)

  - fstab-generator: Apply the _netdev option also to device     units (bsc#1004995)

  - job: Add JobRunningTimeoutSec for JOB_RUNNING state     (bsc#1004995)

  - job: Ensure JobRunningTimeoutSec= survives serialization     (bsc#1004995)

  - rules: Export NVMe WWID udev attribute (bsc#1038865)

  - rules: Introduce disk/by-id (model_serial) symbolic     links for NVMe drives

  - rules: Add rules for NVMe devices

  - sysusers: Make group shadow support configurable     (bsc#1029516)

  - core: When deserializing a unit, fully restore its     cgroup state (bsc#1029102)

  - core: Introduce     cg_mask_from_string()/cg_mask_to_string()

  - core:execute: Fix handling failures of calling fork() in     exec_spawn() (bsc#1040258)

  - Fix systemd-sysv-convert when a package starts shipping     service units (bsc#982303) The database might be missing     when upgrading a package which was shipping no sysv init     scripts nor unit files (at the time

    --save was called) but the new version start shipping     unit files.

  - Disable group shadow support (bsc#1029516)

  - Only check signature job error if signature job exists     (bsc#1043758)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A security fix for a systemd-resolved crash on a crafted DNS packet.
Relevant only to systemd-resolved users (not enabled by default). No need to reboot or logout.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
266232	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : systemd Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0220)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
121751	Photon OS 1.0: Systemd PHSA-2017-0041	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
111890	Photon OS 1.0: Curl / Freetype2 / Glibc / Systemd PHSA-2017-0041 (deprecated)	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	critical
102188	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2017:2031-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
101627	Fedora 26 : systemd (2017-4c3c543d2e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
101516	openSUSE Security Update : systemd (openSUSE-2017-806)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
101226	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : systemd (SUSE-SU-2017:1773-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
100740	Fedora 24 : systemd (2017-0a1b2d495a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
100493	Fedora 25 : systemd (2017-8ff992386d)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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