Advisories ยป MGASA-2016-0380

Updated systemd packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Nov 2016
Modification date: 17 Nov 2016
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2016-7795

Description

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).
                

References

SRPMS

5/core