CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7795
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-10-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The manager_invoke_notify_message function in systemd 231 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and PID 1 hang) via a zero-length message received over a notify socket.
Affected configurations
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• systemd project systemd (<= 231)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2610.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2694.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/9 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/30/1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93223 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037320 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3094-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4234 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2610.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2694.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/9 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/30/1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93223 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037320 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3094-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4234 Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_to_crash_systemd_in_one_tweet Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory