cve-2018-15688
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-26 14:00
Modified
2024-09-17 01:20
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS score ?
0.84% (0.73536)
Summary
A buffer overflow vulnerability in the dhcp6 client of systemd allows a malicious dhcp6 server to overwrite heap memory in systemd-networkd. Affected releases are systemd: versions up to and including 239.
References
security@ubuntu.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105745Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@ubuntu.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3665Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0049Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10518Patch, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3806-1/Third Party Advisory
security@ubuntu.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3807-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105745Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3665Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0049Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10518Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3806-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3807-1/Third Party Advisory
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