CVE-2021-33910

medium

Description

basic/unit-name.c in systemd prior to 246.15, 247.8, 248.5, and 249.1 has a Memory Allocation with an Excessive Size Value (involving strdupa and alloca for a pathname controlled by a local attacker) that results in an operating system crash.

References

Advisories
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https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4942

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20211104-0008/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-48

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/42TMJVNYRY65B4QCJICBYOEIVZV3KUYI/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2LSDMHAKI4LGFOCSPXNVVSEWQFAVFWR7/

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/20256/commits/441e0115646d54f080e5c3bb0ba477c892861ab9

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/b34a4f0e6729de292cb3b0c03c1d48f246ad896b

https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/commit/cfd14c65374027b34dbbc4f0551456c5dc2d1f61

https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/commit/b00674347337b7531c92fdb65590ab253bb57538

https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/commit/764b74113e36ac5219a4b82a05f311b5a92136ce

https://github.com/systemd/systemd-stable/commit/4a1c5f34bd3e1daed4490e9d97918e504d19733b

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/09/07/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/17/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/04/2

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/07/20/2

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-222547.pdf

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163621/Sequoia-A-Deep-Root-In-Linuxs-Filesystem-Layer.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-07-20

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H