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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2022-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-04-25T18:19:52.554Z
Reserved: 2022-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2022-45873

Updated: 2024-08-03T14:24:03.197Z

Status : Modified
Published: 2022-11-23T23:15:10.183
Modified: 2025-04-25T19:15:48.487
Link: CVE-2022-45873
