cve-2016-7796
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-10-13 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:04
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00016.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0003.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/30/1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93250Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037320
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381911Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4234#issuecomment-250441246Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2092.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweetExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-10/msg00016.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0003.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/30/1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93250Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037320
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1381911Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4234#issuecomment-250441246Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2092.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweetExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
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