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DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2016-10-13 CVE-2016-7796 Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products
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.
local
low complexity
systemd-project novell redhat CWE-20
5.5
2016-10-13 CVE-2016-7795 Improper Input Validation vulnerability in multiple products
The manager_invoke_notify_message function in systemd 231 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and PID 1 hang) via a zero-length message received over a notify socket.
local
low complexity
canonical systemd-project CWE-20
4.9
2014-04-18 CVE-2012-0871 Link Following vulnerability in multiple products
The session_link_x11_socket function in login/logind-session.c in systemd-logind in systemd, possibly 37 and earlier, allows local users to create or overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the X11 user directory in /run/user/.
6.3
2013-10-28 CVE-2013-4394 Incorrect Default Permissions vulnerability in multiple products
The SetX11Keyboard function in systemd, when PolicyKit Local Authority (PKLA) is used to change the group permissions on the X Keyboard Extension (XKB) layouts description, allows local users in the group to modify the Xorg X11 Server configuration file and possibly gain privileges via vectors involving "special and control characters."
local
high complexity
systemd-project debian CWE-276
5.9
2013-10-03 CVE-2013-4327 Race Condition vulnerability in multiple products
systemd does not properly use D-Bus for communication with a polkit authority, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by leveraging a PolkitUnixProcess PolkitSubject race condition via a (1) setuid process or (2) pkexec process, a related issue to CVE-2013-4288.
6.9