CVE-2016-7796

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
2025-11-14T04:52:05.500287Z
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
Last affected
95adafc428b5b4be0ddd4d43a7b96658390388bc
Last affected
c9679c652b3c31f2510e8805d81630680ebc7e95
Last affected
cd14eda3212f9109c98a77cd5fee4168010d80da

Affected versions

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Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7796.json"