CVE-2016-7796
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 13, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 9, 2016
Description
The manager_dispatch_notify_fd function in systemd allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a zero-length message received over a notify socket, which causes an error to be returned and the notification handler to be disabled.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20160930 Re: CVE Request: systemd v209+: local denial-of-service attackmailing-list
- https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4234#issuecomment-250441246
- SUSE-SU-2016:2475vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381911
- RHSA-2017:0003vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2016:2476vendor-advisory
- 1037320vdb-entry
- 93250vdb-entry
- RHBA-2015:2092vendor-advisory
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