ubuntu · CVE-2016-7795

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-10-13 14:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:11:05 UTC

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

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7795 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (systemd), 6 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 3, DNE 1, needs-triage 1, released 1.

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.

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