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Centos Linux: CVE-2016-7796: Moderate: systemd security update (CESA-2017:0003)

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Centos Linux: CVE-2016-7796: Moderate: systemd security update (CESA-2017:0003)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/13/2016
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
08/28/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-libgudev1
  • centos-upgrade-libgudev1-devel
  • centos-upgrade-systemd
  • centos-upgrade-systemd-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-systemd-devel
  • centos-upgrade-systemd-journal-gateway
  • centos-upgrade-systemd-libs
  • centos-upgrade-systemd-python
  • centos-upgrade-systemd-sysv

References

  • 93250
  • CVE-2016-7796
  • RHBA-2015:2092
  • RHSA-2017:0003

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