CVE-2016-7796

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-7796
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7796.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7796
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-10-13T14:59:14.567Z
Modified
2026-03-20T11:15:23.255587Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The managerdispatchnotify_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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/systemd/systemd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/systemd/systemd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
24442f3b2598fbd0654aaf9d1370d596fedc83be
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
c9679c652b3c31f2510e8805d81630680ebc7e95
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
cd14eda3212f9109c98a77cd5fee4168010d80da
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
95adafc428b5b4be0ddd4d43a7b96658390388bc
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "209"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "213"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "214"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "229"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
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Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.0-sp1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12-sp1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.0-sp1"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "12.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "7.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7796.json"