suse · CVE-2016-7796

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:46:07 UTC Updated: 2025-10-05 02:38:19 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7796 severity moderate: SUSE including 35 source package names (libgudev-1_0-0-210-114.1, libgudev-1_0-0-210-70.58.1, …), 193 product×package rows across 21 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (21 product lines)): Known Not Affected 142, Fixed 51.

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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