Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1684-1 systemd -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

19 Feb 2019

Affected Packages:

systemd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-6454.

More information:

Chris Coulson discovered a flaw in systemd leading to denial of service. An unprivileged user could take advantage of this issue to crash PID1 by sending a specially crafted D-Bus message on the system bus.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 215-17+deb8u10.

We recommend that you upgrade your systemd packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS