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Re: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd()

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Am 03.10.2016 um 08:22 schrieb Wolfgang Karall:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> On 16-10-02 22:36:00, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> 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 v219)
> [..]
>> I would propose to fix this in stable via regular stable update but
>> would appreciate if the debian-security team would comment on this.
>> If they would prefer a security upload I'm happy to do that as well.
> 
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-7796 says all but
> the version in sid are vulnerable to CVE-2016-7796 and reading

No, sid is not vulnerable. It has been fixed in 231-9

> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4234#issuecomment-250441246
> 
> this sounds still rather serious, so a security upload would be
> appreciated.
> 

This bugs is *not* about CVE-2016-7796 and as I wrote, stable is not
affected by the crash.

Are you a member of the security team? I've never seen your name before
so I'm a bit confused as I explicitly asked from input from the security
team.


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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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