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Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd()

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Control: fixed -1 231-9

Am 02.10.2016 um 22:36 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 215-17+deb8u5
> Severity: important
> User: pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: jessie-backport
> 
> The news about systemd crashing when getting a zero sized message on the
> notification socket made the rounds recently.
> While v215 is not directly affected by this crash (the code to access
> messages of length=0 was added in v21), the version in unstable still

was added in v219, not v21

> get's confused when it receives such a message and basically disables
> the notification system. This is bad, because services relying on the
> notification system, e.g. using the watchdog functionality, are getting
> killed.
> 
> The relevant upstream issue is
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/4240
> 
> 231-9 in unstable already contains this fix.

Marking accordingly

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Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-10-02 22:40 +0200
  Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-10-02 22:50 +0200
  Re: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Wolfgang Karall <lists+debian-security@karall-edv.at> - 2016-10-03 08:30 +0200
    Re: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 12:20 +0200
      Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 12:40 +0200
      Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 12:50 +0200
        Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2016-10-03 13:00 +0200
          Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 14:00 +0200
            Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> - 2016-10-03 14:00 +0200
      Re: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd() Wolfgang Karall <lists+debian-security@karall-edv.at> - 2016-10-03 14:40 +0200

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