CVE-2022-42012

Publication date 10 October 2022

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 1.12.24, 1.13.x and 1.14.x before 1.14.4, and 1.15.x before 1.15.2. An authenticated attacker can cause dbus-daemon and other programs that use libdbus to crash by sending a message with attached file descriptors in an unexpected format.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
dbus	23.04 lunar	Fixed 1.14.0-2ubuntu3
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 1.14.0-2ubuntu3
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.12.20-2ubuntu4.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.12.16-2ubuntu2.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.12.2-1ubuntu1.4
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.6.18-0ubuntu4.5+esm3 Ubuntu Pro

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
dbus	Upstream: 236f16e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5704-1
DBus vulnerabilities
27 October 2022