MGASA-2016-0380 Updated systemd packages fix security vulnerability

Andrew Ayer discovered that Systemd improperly handled zero-length notification messages. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service init crash leading to system unavailability CVE-2016-7795...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7796

The managerdispatchnotifyfd 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...

CVE-2016-7795

The managerinvokenotifymessage 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...

Systemd Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

systemd is a Linux-based system and service manager developed by German software developer Lennart Poettering and others. It is compatible with the SysV and LSB startup scripts and provides a framework for representing dependencies between system services. A denial of service vulnerability exists...

USN-3094-1 systemd vulnerability

Andrew Ayer discovered that Systemd improperly handled zero-length notification messages. A local unprivileged attacker could use this to cause a denial of service init crash leading to system unavailability...

CVE-2015-8842

tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf in systemd before 229 uses weak permissions for /var/log/journal/%m/system.journal, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the file...

CVE-2013-4392

systemd, when updating file permissions, allows local users to change the permissions and SELinux security contexts for arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files...

CVE-2013-4392

systemd, when updating file permissions, allows local users to change the permissions and SELinux security contexts for arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files...

PT-2013-4994 · Systemd +2 · Systemd +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: systemd affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows local users to change the permissions and SELinux security contexts for arbitrary files via a symlink attack on unspecified files. Recommendations: At the moment, there is ...

CVE-2013-4327

systemd does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a 1 setuid process or 2 pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288...