SUSE-SU-2017:1773-1

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CVE-2017-9217
Published: 04 Jul 2017, 14:14
Last modified:04 Feb 2026, 04:15

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
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EPSS Score
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KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

04 Jul 2017, 14:14
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
04 Feb 2026, 04:15
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Security update for systemd This update for systemd fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2017-9217: resolved: Fix null pointer p->question dereferencing that could lead to resolved aborting (bsc#1040614) The update also fixed several non-security bugs: - core/mount: Use the '-c' flag to not canonicalize paths when calling /bin/umount - automount: Handle expire_tokens when the mount unit changes its state (bsc#1040942) - automount: Rework propagation between automount and mount units - build: Make sure tmpfiles.d/systemd-remote.conf get installed when necessary - build: Fix systemd-journal-upload installation - basic: Detect XEN Dom0 as no virtualization (bsc#1036873) - virt: Make sure some errors are not ignored - fstab-generator: Do not skip Before= ordering for noauto mountpoints - fstab-gen: Do not convert device timeout into seconds when initializing JobTimeoutSec - core/device: Use JobRunningTimeoutSec= for device units (bsc#1004995) - fstab-generator: Apply the _netdev option also to device units (bsc#1004995) - job: Add JobRunningTimeoutSec for JOB_RUNNING state (bsc#1004995) - job: Ensure JobRunningTimeoutSec= survives serialization (bsc#1004995) - rules: Export NVMe WWID udev attribute (bsc#1038865) - rules: Introduce disk/by-id (model_serial) symbolic links for NVMe drives - rules: Add rules for NVMe devices - sysusers: Make group shadow support configurable (bsc#1029516) - core: When deserializing a unit, fully restore its cgroup state (bsc#1029102) - core: Introduce cg_mask_from_string()/cg_mask_to_string() - core:execute: Fix handling failures of calling fork() in exec_spawn() (bsc#1040258) - Fix systemd-sysv-convert when a package starts shipping service units (bsc#982303) The database might be missing when upgrading a package which was shipping no sysv init scripts nor unit files (at the time --save was called) but the new version start shipping unit files. - Disable group shadow support (bsc#1029516) - Only check signature job error if signature job exists (bsc#1043758)

Affected Systems

  • suse•systemd&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2

    < 228-149.3

  • suse•systemd&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2

    < 228-149.3

  • suse•systemd&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2

    < 228-149.3

  • suse•systemd&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2

    < 228-149.3

  • suse•systemd&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2

    < 228-149.3

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