A heap use-after-free vulnerability was found in systemd before version v245-rc1, where asynchronous Polkit queries are performed while handling dbus messages. A local unprivileged attacker can abuse this flaw to crash systemd services or potentially execute code and elevate their privileges, by sending specially crafted dbus messages.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2020-03-31T16:44:29

Updated: 2024-08-04T06:46:30.849Z

Reserved: 2019-11-27T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-1712

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-03-31T17:15:26.577

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:19:28.413

Link: CVE-2020-1712

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2020-02-05T09:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-1712 - Bugzilla