CVE-2016-7795 (GCVE-0-2016-7795)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-10-13 14:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:04
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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