CVE-2014-3636

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.

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Notes

References

• MITRE
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

• USN-2352-1
• DBus vulnerabilities
• 22 September 2014

Other references

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3636