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Fedora 24: 2016-c942ed0424 Moderate: Systemd Notification Crash Issue

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Calendar Grey October 3, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 24 users can resolve empty notifications and crashes through a patch. Update to systemd version 230-7 released in October 2023 with installation steps
Fix for the empty notification message issue

Summary

systemd is a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with

SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization

capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services,

offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using

Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system

state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an

elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic.

Update Information:

Fix for the empty notification message issue. ---- Fix for crash on empty notification message.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora crash fix systemd notification issue

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1380286 - CVE-2016-7795 CVE-2016-7796 systemd: Assertion failure when PID 1 receives a zero-length message over notify socket https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1380286

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update systemd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: systemd
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 229
Release: 15.fc24
URL: https://https://
Summary: A System and Service Manager

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora crash fix systemd notification issue

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