CVE-2018-15686

Publication date

2018-10-26 14:00:00

Family

canonical

State

PUBLISHED

Description

A vulnerability in unit_deserialize of systemd allows an attacker to supply arbitrary state across systemd re-execution via NotifyAccess. This can be used to improperly influence systemd execution and possibly lead to root privilege escalation. Affected releases are systemd versions up to and including 239.