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Debian 9: DLA-2715-1 Moderate: Systemd Memory Corruption DoS

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Calendar Grey July 20, 2021
Dist Debian Esm H88
The latest Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2715-2 urges users to upgrade systemd to address vulnerabilities that could result in memory corruption and potential system failures.
The Qualys Research Labs discovered that an attacker-controlled allocation using the alloca() function could result in memory corruption, allowing to crash systemd and hence the en...

Summary

Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at
https://www.qualys.com/2021/07/20/cve-2021-33910/denial-of-service-systemd.txt

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version
232-25+deb9u13.

We recommend that you upgrade your systemd packages.

For the detailed security status of systemd please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/systemd

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


Package: systemd
Version: 232-25+deb9u13
CVE ID: CVE-2021-33910

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