cve/2016/CVE-2016-7795.md

CVE-2016-7795

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/28/9
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/30/1
• https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4234

Github

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