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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2020.1038.3 systemd-journald vulnerability CVE-2019-3815 15 July 2020 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: BIG-IP Publisher: F5 Networks Operating System: Network Appliance Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2019-3815 CVE-2018-16864 Reference: ESB-2019.0249 Original Bulletin: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K22040951 Revision History: July 15 2020: Versions known to be vulnerable in branch 14.x updated July 8 2020: Vendor added additional vulnerable branches March 24 2020: Initial Release - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- K22040951:systemd-journald vulnerability CVE-2019-3815 Security Advisory Original Publication Date: 24 Mar, 2020 Latest Publication Date: 14 Jul, 2020 Security Advisory Description A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free the memory allocated by set_iovec_field_free() to store the `_CMDLINE=` entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash. This issue only affects versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise since v219-62.2. (CVE-2019-3815) Impact A local attacker may be able to cause excessive resource consumption on the BIG-IP system, potentially leading to a failover event. Security Advisory Status F5 Product Development has assigned ID 887637 (BIG-IP) to this vulnerability. To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about releases, point releases, or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to the following table. For more information about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning. +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | | |Versions |Fixes | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable| |Product |Branch|known to |introduced|Severity |score^|component | | | |be |in | |1 |or feature| | | |vulnerable| | | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | |16.x |None |16.0.0 | | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |15.x |15.1.0 |None | | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |14.x |14.1.2.1 -|14.1.2.5 | | | | |BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, | |14.1.2.4^2| | | | | |AFM, Analytics, +------+----------+----------+ | | | |APM, ASM, DNS, FPS,|13.x |None |Not |Low |3.3 |Linux OS | |GTM, Link | | |applicable| | | | |Controller, PEM) +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |12.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |11.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ | |7.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | |BIG-IQ Centralized |6.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | |Management | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | | +------+----------+----------+ | | | | |5.x |None |Not | | | | | | | |applicable| | | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ |Traffix SDC |5.x |None |Not |Not |None |None | | | | |applicable|vulnerable| | | +-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+ ^1The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge. ^2BIG-IP 14.1.2.4 is not a supported release; please use a later release. Refer to K5903: BIG-IP software support policy. Security Advisory Recommended Actions If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed in the Fixes introduced in column. If the table lists only an older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists. 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