CVE-2018-15688: systemd systemd

Out-of-Bounds write in systemd-networkd dhcpv6 option handling

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.017 · 76th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: canonical) at 26 Oct 2018, 14:00 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
systemd	systemd	affected unspecified to 239, inclusive custom

Identifiers

CVE-2018-15688

CNA

canonical

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-120

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (canonical)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.017, the 76th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 26 Oct 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-10 vendor-advisorygentoo
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00017.html mailing-listmlist
usn.ubuntu.com/3807-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
usn.ubuntu.com/3806-1/ vendor-advisoryubuntu
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3665 vendor-advisoryredhat
www.securityfocus.com/bid/105745 vdb-entrybid
github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/10518
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0049 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327 vendor-advisoryredhat

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