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title: "CVE-2010-4352\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2010-4352

Publication date 30 December 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.4.1 allows
local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a message
containing many nested variants.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-4352?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| dbus | 10.10 maverick | Fixed 1.4.0-0ubuntu1.1 |
| 10.04 LTS lucid | Fixed 1.2.16-2ubuntu4.1 |
| 9.10 karmic | Fixed 1.2.16-0ubuntu9.1 |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Fixed 1.1.20-1ubuntu3.4 |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Ignored end of life |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)
* [Patch details](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-4352?format=md#patch-details)

## Notes

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### [jdstrand](https://launchpad.net/~jdstrand)

requires unprivileged user account

### Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)

| Package | Patch details |
| --- | --- |
| dbus | * Upstream:   [?id=7d6](http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?id=7d65a3a6ed8815e34a99c680ac3869fde49dbbd4) |

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4352)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4352)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2010-4352)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4352)

### Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

+ [USN-1044-1](https://usn.ubuntu.com/USN-1044-1)
+ D-Bus vulnerability
+ 18 January 2011

### Other references

* <http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/3>
* <http://www.remlab.net/op/dbus-variant-recursion.shtml>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4352>