Bug 1212355 (CVE-2023-31439)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2023-31439: systemd-mini,systemd: An attacker can modify the contents of past events in a sealed log file and then adjust the file such that checking the integrity shows no error, despite m
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: Cathy Hu <cathy.hu>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: systemd maintainers <systemd-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: security-team
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/369321/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2023-31439:2.3:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
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Description Cathy Hu 2023-06-14 09:39:09 UTC 
CVE-2023-31439

An issue was discovered in systemd 253. An attacker can modify the contents of
past events in a sealed log file and then adjust the file such that checking the
integrity shows no error, despite modifications.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-31439
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-31439
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases
https://github.com/kastel-security/Journald
https://github.com/kastel-security/Journald/blob/main/journald-publication.pdf
Comment 1 Cathy Hu 2023-06-14 09:39:38 UTC 
upstream does not think this is a security vulnerability, so no fix
Comment 2 Cathy Hu 2023-09-11 10:08:11 UTC 
i talked to the other people from the security team and i will close this as wontfix