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Medium ALAS2023-2023-025 3 CVEs

Moderate: systemd security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 22, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-45873: systemd 250 and 251 allows local users to achieve a systemd-coredump deadlock by triggering a crash that has a long backtrace. This occurs in parse_elf_object in shared/elf-util.c. The exploitation methodology is to crash a binary calling the same function recursively, and put it in a deeply nested directory to make its backtrace large enough to cause the deadlock. This must be done 16 times when MaxConnections=16 is set for the systemd/units/systemd-coredump.socket file. CVE-2022-4415: A vulnerability was found in systemd. This security flaw can cause a local information leak due to systemd-coredump not respecting the fs.suid_dumpable kernel setting. CVE-2021-3997: A flaw was found in systemd. An uncontrolled recursion in systemd-tmpfiles may lead to a denial of service at boot time when too many nested directories are created in /tmp.

Fixed packages 26

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-container 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-container-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-debugsource 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-devel 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-journal-remote 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-journal-remote-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-libs 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-libs-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-networkd 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-networkd-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-oomd-defaults 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-pam 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-pam-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-resolved 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-resolved-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-rpm-macros 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-standalone-sysusers 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-standalone-sysusers-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-standalone-tmpfiles 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-standalone-tmpfiles-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-tests 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-tests-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-udev 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 systemd-udev-debuginfo 0:252.4-1161.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3997.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-4415.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-45873.html