Red Hat: CVE-2016-7796: Moderate: systemd security update (RHSA-2017:0003)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | October 13, 2016 | January 07, 2017 | September 24, 2018 |
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.
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