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CVE-2014-3636

Published: 17 September 2014

D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to (1) cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections and connection drop) by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors or (2) cause a denial of service (disconnect) via multiple messages that combine to have more than the allowed number of file descriptors for a single sendmsg call.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
commit in 1.6 seems to have wrong header
only affects >= 1.3.0

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
dbus
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Not vulnerable
(1.2.16-2ubuntu4.7)
precise
Released (1.4.18-1ubuntu1.6)
trusty
Released (1.6.18-0ubuntu4.2)
upstream
Released (1.6.24,1.8.8)
Patches:
upstream: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?id=6465e37c8ff70a714e302d0c9e6534fa6181fce6
upstream: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.6&id=346da99f7620e6901e7c7babd4590fcc5aac32bf