vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-7796): systemd vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 13, 2016
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Aug 19, 2025

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

ubuntu-upgrade-systemd
Title
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