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CVE-2012-1101

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-03-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

systemd 37-1 does not properly handle non-existent services, which causes a denial of service (failure of login procedure).

Affected products

• systemd: 37

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/4
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662029
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1101
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=9a46fc3b9014de1bf0ed1f3004a536b08a19ebb3
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/4
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=662029
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1101
• https://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=9a46fc3b9014de1bf0ed1f3004a536b08a19ebb3

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