The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0271 advisory.

    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: stack overflow when calling syslog from a command with long cmdline (CVE-2018-16864)

    * systemd: stack overflow when receiving many journald entries (CVE-2018-16865)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Qualys Research Labs for reporting these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : systemd (RHSA-2019:0271)

high Nessus Plugin ID 121587

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.8 Nov 8, 2024, 2:25 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411080225
Version 1.7 Jun 24, 2024, 6:52 AM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2018-16865") Plugin Feed: 202406240652