Linux's Systemd Hit With Three Security Holes | Linux Today

Linux’s Systemd Hit With Three Security Holes

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Christine Hall
Jan 14, 2019

Red Hat, which maintains Linux’s systemd, has issued patches for CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865 and has given the exploits an “Important” impact rating with severity ratings of 7.4 and 7.5. These patches should be available soon, if not already, for most Linux distributions.

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