Denial of Service Vulnerability in systemd's manager_invoke_notify_message Function

CVE-2016-7795 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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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