USN-3558-1

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USN-3558-1

Summary: systemd vulnerabilities

Details: Karim Hossen & Thomas Imbert and Nelson William Gamazo Sanchez independently discovered that systemd-resolved incorrectly handled certain DNS responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause systemd to temporarily stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-15908) It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled automounted volumes. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1049)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3558-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15908, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1049