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Medium · 5.7 CVE-2021-29507 EUVD-2021-16100

dlt-daemon could crash if there is special character in dlt.conf

Published May 28, 2021 · Updated Aug 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

GENIVI Diagnostic Log and Trace (DLT) provides a log and trace interface. In versions of GENIVI DLT between 2.10.0 and 2.18.6, a configuration file containing the special characters could cause a vulnerable component to crash. All the applications which are using the configuration file could fail to generate their dlt logs in system. As of time of publication, no patch exists. As a workaround, one may check the integrity of information in configuration file manually.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
GENIVI dlt-daemon > 2.10.0, <= 2.18.6 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 dlt-daemon 2.18.8-1 —
Debian 13 dlt-daemon 2.18.8-1 —
Debian 12 dlt-daemon 2.18.8-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 dlt-daemon No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS dlt-daemon No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 dlt-daemon No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS dlt-daemon No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS dlt-daemon No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS dlt-daemon No fix yet —

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