VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-3815

CVSS score3.3 LOW
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-01-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free the memory allocated by set_iovec_field_free() to store the `_CMDLINE=` entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash. This issue only affects versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise since v219-62.2.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Primary references