Denial of Service Vulnerability in systemd's manager_dispatch_notify_fd Function

CVE-2016-7796 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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