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Fedora 25: 2016-894abe29d2 Moderate: systemd Empty Notification Crash Fix

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Address systemd crashes in Fedora 25 caused by empty security update notifications. Follow the steps provided to enhance stability and prevent downtime
Fix for crash on empty notification messages.

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 crash on empty notification messages.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora crash fix systemd

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1380286 - CVE-2016-7795 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 25
Version: 231
Release: 6.fc25
URL: https://https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/?__goaway_challenge=meta-refresh&__goaway_id=dd08ab872ff28453b3b92118c42e5dc8?__goaway_challenge=meta-refresh&__goaway_id=71f0a1c54053bc2722b7d1e2d2c5966a
Summary: A System and Service Manager

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Fedora crash fix systemd

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