UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7795

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-7795
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7795.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7795
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Related
Published
2016-10-13T14:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:43:52Z
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
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The managerinvokenotify_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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / systemd

Package

Name
systemd
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/systemd@229-4ubuntu10?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
229-4ubuntu10

Affected versions

Other

225-1ubuntu9
227-2ubuntu1
227-2ubuntu2
228-1ubuntu2
228-2ubuntu1
228-2ubuntu2
228-3ubuntu1
228-4ubuntu1
228-4ubuntu2
228-5ubuntu1
228-5ubuntu2
228-5ubuntu3
228-6ubuntu1
229-1ubuntu2
229-1ubuntu4
229-2ubuntu1
229-3ubuntu1
229-3ubuntu2
229-4ubuntu1
229-4ubuntu4
229-4ubuntu5
229-4ubuntu6
229-4ubuntu7
229-4ubuntu8

Ecosystem specific 

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        },
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libnss-resolve",
            "binary_version": "229-4ubuntu10"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpam-systemd",
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libsystemd-dev",
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        },
        {
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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libudev-dev",
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        },
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        },
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        },
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        },
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}