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SUSE: CVE-2016-7796: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-7796: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
10/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/14/2016
Modified
02/04/2022

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)

  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-0
  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-0-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libgudev-1_0-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libudev-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libudev1
  • suse-upgrade-libudev1-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-sles12-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-sles12sp1-docker-image
  • suse-upgrade-systemd
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-bash-completion
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-devel
  • suse-upgrade-systemd-sysvinit
  • suse-upgrade-typelib-1_0-gudev-1_0
  • suse-upgrade-udev

References

  • SUSE-SU-2016:2475
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2475-1
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2476
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2476-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1
  • RHBA-2015:2092
  • RHSA-2017:0003
  • 93250
  • 1037320
  • CVE-2016-7796
  • DLA-659-1
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