UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1049

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1049

    Published: 17 Jan 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-1049
    Aliases:
    USN-3558-1

    Summary:

    Details: In systemd prior to 234 a race condition exists between .mount and .automount units such that automount requests from kernel may not be serviced by systemd resulting in kernel holding the mountpoint and any processes that try to use said mount will hang. A race condition like this may lead to denial of service, until mount points are unmounted.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1049, https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5916, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3558-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-1049

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: systemd

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -204-5ubuntu20.26

    Affected versions

    204-0ubuntu18

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High