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    CVE-2022-45873

    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.

    Published:Oct 18, 2022
    Last Modified:Apr 25, 2025
    EPS:Nov 23, 2022
    EPSS Score:0.0003
    CVSS Score:5.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Systemd Project
    Product
    Systemd

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