systemd 250 and 251 allows local users to achieve a systemd-coredump deadlock by triggering a crash that has a long backtrace. This occurs in parse_elf_object in shared/elf-util.c. The exploitation methodology is to crash a binary calling the same function recursively, and put it in a deeply nested directory to make its backtrace large enough to cause the deadlock. This must be done 16 times when MaxConnections=16 is set for the systemd/units/systemd-coredump.socket file.
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Information
Published : 2022-11-23 23:15
Updated : 2026-10-14 19:16
NVD link : CVE-2022-45873
Mitre link : CVE-2022-45873
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-45873
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Products Affected
systemd_project
- systemd
fedoraproject
- fedora
CWE
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
