CVE-2022-45873
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.5 Medium
- Published
- Nov 23, 2022
- Updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- Reserved
- Nov 23, 2022
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/076b807be472630692c5348c60d0c2b7b28ad437
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/25055#issuecomment-1313733553
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/24853#issuecomment-1326561497
- FEDORA-2022-ef4f57b072vendor-advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.