# CVE-2022-2526: systemd: The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init s...

CVE-2022-2526 is fixed in 18 products on 1 platform, first by libnss-myhostname 237-3ubuntu10.54, released August 23, 2022. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

- Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2526
- Priority: High
- CVSS: 9.8 (Important)
- EPSS: 0.0142
- CISA KEV: not listed
- Exploited (vendor report): no
- Publicly disclosed: no
- Published: Aug 23, 2022

## Description

The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.  Security Fix(es):  * systemd-resolved: use-after-free when dealing with DnsStream in resolved-dns-stream.c (CVE-2022-2526)  For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

## Where it's fixed

| Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | libnss-myhostname Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [libnss-myhostname 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libnss-myhostname-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | libnss-mymachines Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [libnss-mymachines 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libnss-mymachines-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | libnss-resolve Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [libnss-resolve 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libnss-resolve-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | libnss-systemd Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [libnss-systemd 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libnss-systemd-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | libpam-systemd Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [libpam-systemd 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libpam-systemd-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | libsystemd0 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [libsystemd0 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libsystemd0-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | libudev1 Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [libudev1 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-libudev1-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 240-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2526](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2022-2526.md) | Sep 9, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 240-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2526](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2022-2526.md) | Sep 9, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd Debian 14 | 240-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2022-2526](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2022-2526.md) | Sep 9, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd RHEL 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RHSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [systemd 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-systemd-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd almalinux 8 | 239-58.el8_6.4 | [ALSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd ol 8 | 0:239-58.0.1.el8_6.4 | [ELSA-2022-6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd rocky 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RLSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rlsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-container RHEL 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RHSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-container Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [systemd-container 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-systemd-container-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-container almalinux 8 | 239-58.el8_6.4 | [ALSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-container ol 8 | 0:239-58.0.1.el8_6.4 | [ELSA-2022-6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-coredump Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [systemd-coredump 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-systemd-coredump-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-devel RHEL 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RHSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-devel almalinux 8 | 239-58.el8_6.4 | [ALSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-devel ol 8 | 0:239-58.0.1.el8_6.4 | [ELSA-2022-6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-journal-remote RHEL 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RHSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-journal-remote Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [systemd-journal-remote 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-systemd-journal-remote-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-journal-remote almalinux 8 | 239-58.el8_6.4 | [ALSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-journal-remote ol 8 | 0:239-58.0.1.el8_6.4 | [ELSA-2022-6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-libs RHEL 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RHSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-libs almalinux 8 | 239-58.el8_6.4 | [ALSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-libs ol 8 | 0:239-58.0.1.el8_6.4 | [ELSA-2022-6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-pam RHEL 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RHSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-pam almalinux 8 | 239-58.el8_6.4 | [ALSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-pam ol 8 | 0:239-58.0.1.el8_6.4 | [ELSA-2022-6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-sysv Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [systemd-sysv 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-systemd-sysv-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-tests RHEL 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RHSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-tests Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [systemd-tests 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-systemd-tests-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-tests almalinux 8 | 239-58.el8_6.4 | [ALSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-tests ol 8 | 0:239-58.0.1.el8_6.4 | [ELSA-2022-6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-udev RHEL 8 | 0:239-58.el8_6.4 | [RHSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-udev almalinux 8 | 239-58.el8_6.4 | [ALSA-2022:6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | systemd-udev ol 8 | 0:239-58.0.1.el8_6.4 | [ELSA-2022-6206](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2022-6206.md) | Aug 29, 2022 |
| Linux | udev Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) | 237-3ubuntu10.54 | [udev 237-3ubuntu10.54](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-bionic-udev-237-3ubuntu10.54.md) | Aug 23, 2022 |

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