CVE-2013-4391 (GCVE-0-2013-4391)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-10-28 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the valid_user_field function in journal/journald-native.c in systemd allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large journal data field, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2013-09-19 00:00
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