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HistoryOct 14, 2016 - 4:09 p.m.

Security update for systemd (important)

2016-10-1416:09:10
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This update for systemd fixes the following security issue:

  • CVE-2016-7796: A zero-length message received over systemd’s
    notification socket could make manager_dispatch_notify_fd() return an
    error and, as a side effect, disable the notification handler
    completely. As the notification socket is world-writable, this could
    have allowed a local user to perform a denial-of-service attack against
    systemd. (bsc#1001765)

Additionally, the following non-security fixes are included:

  • Fix HMAC calculation when appending a data object to journal.
    (bsc#1000435)
  • Never accept file descriptors from file systems with mandatory locking
    enabled. (bsc#954374)
  • Do not warn about missing install info with "preset". (bsc#970293)
  • Save /run/systemd/users/UID before starting [email protected]. (bsc#996269)
  • Make sure that /var/lib/systemd/sysv-convert/database is always
    initialized. (bsc#982211)
  • Remove daylight saving time handling and tzfile parser. (bsc#990074)
  • Make sure directory watch is started before cryptsetup. (bsc#987173)
  • Introduce sd_pid_notify() and sd_pid_notifyf() APIs. (bsc#987857)
  • Set KillMode=mixed for our daemons that fork worker processes.
  • Add nosuid and nodev options to tmp.mount.
  • Don’t start console-getty.service when /dev/console is missing.
    (bsc#982251)
  • Correct segmentation fault in udev/path_id due to missing NULL check.
    (bsc#982210)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP1:Update update project.