CVE-2019-3815: Debian Linux

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.6 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only

Published 2019-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.