CVE-2021-33910

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

basic/unit-name.c in systemd prior to 246.15, 247.8, 248.5, and 249.1 has a Memory Allocation with an Excessive Size Value (involving strdupa and alloca for a pathname controlled by a local attacker) that results in an operating system crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-33910

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: rocky — https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:2717

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33910.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202107-57

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed249.1-1
suse slesaffected
rockylinux rocky8fixed
debian debianbookwormfixed247.3-6
debian debianbullseyefixed247.3-6
debian debianforkyfixed247.3-6
debian debiansidfixed247.3-6
debian debiantrixiefixed247.3-6

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.