Martin, if you can point me at the xenial branch, we can push this through the security pocket. I wanted to wait and see if there were any further issues addressed (and to not release an update on a Friday). Thanks!
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1628687 Title: Assertion failure when PID 1 receives a zero-length message over notify socket Status in systemd: Fix Released Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in systemd source package in Xenial: In Progress Status in systemd source package in Yakkety: Fix Released Bug description: Environment: Xenial 16.04.1 Amd64 Description. Systemd fails an assertion in manager_invoke_notify_message when a zero-length message is received over /run/systemd/notify. This allows a local user to perform a denial-of-service attack against PID 1. How to trigger the bug: $ while true; do NOTIFY_SOCKET=/run/systemd/notify systemd-notify ""; done The following entries are written into /var/log/syslog, at this point systemd is crashed. Sep 28 20:57:20 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 1000. Sep 28 20:57:28 ubuntu systemd[1]: Assertion 'n > 0' failed at ../src/core/manager.c:1501, function manager_invoke_notify_message(). Aborting. Sep 28 20:57:29 ubuntu systemd[1]: Caught <ABRT>, dumped core as pid 1307. Sep 28 20:57:29 ubuntu systemd[1]: Freezing execution. Public bug: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4234 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/systemd/+bug/1628687/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
