CVE-2020-1712

HIGH7.8

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages

Published Mar 31, 2020

Modified 8 months ago

Details

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.

References

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1712

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https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1068447e6954dc6ce52f099ed174c442cb89ed54

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https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/637486261528e8aa3da9f26a4487dc254f4b7abb

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https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/bc130b6858327b382b07b3985cf48e2aa9016b2d

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https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/ea0d0ede03c6f18dbc5036c5e9cccf97e415ccc2

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