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CVE-2018-15686
high
Description
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.
References
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3816-1/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.html
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10519
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0593
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3222