Debian Security Advisory

DLA-659-1 systemd -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

18 Oct 2016

Affected Packages:

systemd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 839607.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2016-7796.

More information:

The manager_dispatch_notify_fd function in systemd allowed local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a zero-length message received over a notify socket, which caused an error to be returned and the notification handler to be disabled.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 44-11+deb7u5.

We recommend that you upgrade your systemd packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS