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SUSE-SU-2016:2475-1 Not scored

Security update for systemd

This update for systemd fixes the following security issue: - CVE-2016-7796: A zero-length message received over systemd's notification socket could make manager_dispatch_notify_fd() return an error and, as a side effect, disable the notification handler completely. As the notification socket is world-writable, this could have allowed a local user to perform a denial-of-service attack against systemd. (bsc#1001765) Additionally, the following non-security fixes are included: - Fix HMAC calculation when appending a data object to journal. (bsc#1000435) - Never accept file descriptors from file systems with mandatory locking enabled. (bsc#954374) - Do not warn about missing install info with 'preset'. (bsc#970293) - Save /run/systemd/users/UID before starting [email protected]. (bsc#996269) - Make sure that /var/lib/systemd/sysv-convert/database is always initialized. (bsc#982211) - Remove daylight saving time handling and tzfile parser. (bsc#990074) - Make sure directory watch is started before cryptsetup. (bsc#987173) - Introduce sd_pid_notify() and sd_pid_notifyf() APIs. (bsc#987857) - Set KillMode=mixed for our daemons that fork worker processes. - Add nosuid and nodev options to tmp.mount. - Don't start console-getty.service when /dev/console is missing. (bsc#982251) - Correct segmentation fault in udev/path_id due to missing NULL check. (bsc#982210)

Exploit probability Not scored
Published October 7, 2016
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS systemd
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 systemd

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities SUSE-SU-2016:2475-1

This update for systemd fixes the following security issue: - CVE-2016-7796: A zero-length message received over systemd's notification socket could make manager_dispatch_notify_fd() return an error and, as a side effect, disable the notification handler completely. As the notification socket is world-writable, this could have allowed a local user to perform a denial-of-service attack against systemd. (bsc#1001765) Additionally, the following non-security fixes are included: - Fix HMAC calculation when appending a data object to journal. (bsc#1000435) - Never accept file descriptors from file systems with mandatory locking enabled. (bsc#954374) - Do not warn about missing install info with 'preset'. (bsc#970293) - Save /run/systemd/users/UID before starting [email protected]. (bsc#996269) - Make sure that /var/lib/systemd/sysv-convert/database is always initialized. (bsc#982211) - Remove daylight saving time handling and tzfile parser. (bsc#990074) - Make sure directory watch is started before cryptsetup. (bsc#987173) - Introduce sd_pid_notify() and sd_pid_notifyf() APIs. (bsc#987857) - Set KillMode=mixed for our daemons that fork worker processes. - Add nosuid and nodev options to tmp.mount. - Don't start console-getty.service when /dev/console is missing. (bsc#982251) - Correct segmentation fault in udev/path_id due to missing NULL check. (bsc#982210)

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05 / REFERENCES

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