CVE-2016-7796: Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 12 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 12.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server For SAP: version 12.0 only
• Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 12.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• Systemd Project Systemd: version 209 only; version 213 only; version 214 only; version 229 only

Published 2016-10-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.