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CVE-2014-7824

Published: 18 November 2014

D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.26, 1.8.x before 1.8.10, and 1.9.x before 1.9.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections and connection drop) by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3636.1.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
also should include regression fix for CVE-2014-3639:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86431

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
dbus
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (1.6.26, 1.8.10-1)
lucid Not vulnerable
(1.2.16-2ubuntu4.7)
precise
Released (1.4.18-1ubuntu1.7)
trusty
Released (1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3)
utopic
Released (1.8.8-1ubuntu2.1)
Patches:
upstream: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.6&id=68cb9ead957314b30e604018f2dd5b0fc3b2127c (1.6)
upstream: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.8&id=4e466446d27f1a3991c22307a47a81c9e93e530d (1.8)