PT-2013-4993 · Systemd · Systemd

Florian Weimer + 1 · Published 2013-10-28 · Updated 2022-01-31 · CVE-2013-4391

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions systemd (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in the valid user field function, which can be triggered by a large journal data field. This can cause a denial of service (crash) and potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code due to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4391

DSA-2777-1

Affected Products

Systemd

References · 10

• 🔥 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=505b6a61c22d5565e9308045c7b9bf79f7d0517e · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-4391 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4391 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2777 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4391 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4391 · Vendor Advisory
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725357 · Patch
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859051 · Patch
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-34 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/01/9 · Note