In systemd prior to 234 a race condition exists between .mount and .automount units such that automount requests from kernel may not be serviced by systemd resulting in kernel holding the mountpoint and any processes that try to use said mount will hang. A race condition like this may lead to denial of service, until mount points are unmounted.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1580-1 systemd security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-11703 In systemd prior to 234 a race condition exists between .mount and .automount units such that automount requests from kernel may not be serviced by systemd resulting in kernel holding the mountpoint and any processes that try to use said mount will hang. A race condition like this may lead to denial of service, until mount points are unmounted.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3558-1 systemd vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T16:47:41.544Z

Reserved: 2017-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-1049

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-16T21:29:00.377

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:59:04.120

Link: CVE-2018-1049

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-1049 - Bugzilla

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