Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-1712  

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version 245, 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.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Arbitrary code execution

Description

A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version 245, 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.

AVG-1094 systemd 244.2-1 High Vulnerable

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