Vulnerability in Freedesktop Dbus
CVE-2014-7824
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 2.1 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (48.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Freedesktop Dbus — versions 1.6.0, 1.6.2, 1.6.4
- Mageia Project — versions 3, 4
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0, 8.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/10/2 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- secunia.com/advisories/62603 (third-party-advisory)
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0457.html
- bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98576 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/71012 (vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2425-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3099 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)