Bug#784238: systemd: emergency.service restart leads to unusable system

[Bernd Zeimetz]

control: severity -1 grave

On 05/04/2015 01:41 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Restarting emergency.service (as done by needsrestart) within the
>> emergency.service leads to a prompt for the root password to enter
>> maintenance, but neither entering a valid password nor pressing ctrl+d
>> results into a login shell.
>
> Why do you run needrestart in emergency mode?

that is not the question here.
Restarting a service should not be broken, and having a completely 
unusable system which seems to be locked but it is not is clearly a 
security issue, and not being able to return away from this is a grave bug.

Actually one should discuss if a CVE number should be assigned here.


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