An allocation of memory without limits, that could result in the stack clashing with another memory region, was discovered in systemd-journald when a program with long command line arguments calls syslog. A local attacker may use this flaw to crash systemd-journald or escalate his privileges. Versions through v240 are vulnerable.
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Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:15:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-09T15:52:14.009Z

Reserved: 2018-09-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-16864

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:32:54.107Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-01-11T20:29:00.277

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:53:28.590

Link: CVE-2018-16864

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-01-09T18:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16864 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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