Improper Input Validation Affecting systemd/systemd package, versions [209,232)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.86% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SYSTEMDSYSTEMD-2365490
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Oct 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Oct 2016

CVE-2016-7796  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade systemd/systemd to version 232 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1