CVE Database · CVE-2016-7796
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
0.85%
Published
Oct 13, 2016
Modified
May 6, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (1)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
The manager_dispatch_notify_fd 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.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (13)
References (20)