Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-16864  

A memory corruption vulnerability has been found in the journald component of systemd >= v230 and <= v240, in the set_iovec_field() function. Passing several megabytes of command-line arguments to a program that calls syslog() led to an attacker-controlled alloca(), which could be used to override the content of the memory, in the stack-clash fashion.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A memory corruption vulnerability has been found in the journald component of systemd >= v230 and <= v240, in the set_iovec_field() function. Passing several megabytes of command-line arguments to a program that calls syslog() led to an attacker-controlled alloca(), which could be used to override the content of the memory, in the stack-clash fashion.

AVG-845 systemd 240.0-3 240.34-1 High Fixed

12 Jan 2019 ASA-201901-9 AVG-845 systemd High arbitrary code execution

https://www.qualys.com/2019/01/09/system-down/system-down.txt
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/11374
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/11374/commits/084eeb865ca63887098e0945fb4e93c852b91b0f