Bug#839607: Robustify manager_dispatch_notify_fd()

[Michael Biebl]

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 at 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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