Memory Allocation Vulnerability in systemd Affects Linux Operating Systems
CVE-2021-33910

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Key Information:

Vendor: Systemd Project
Status: Systemd
Vendor: CVE Published:; 20 July 2021

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What is CVE-2021-33910?

A vulnerability in systemd prior to specific versions allows local attackers to exploit memory allocation functions, particularly strdupa and alloca, with excessively large values. This may lead to an uncontrolled memory allocation that results in operating system crashes, compromising the stability of the affected Linux distributions.