Vulnerability in Freedesktop Dbus
CVE-2015-0245
D-Bus 1.4.x through 1.6.x before 1.6.30, 1.8.x before 1.8.16, and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not validate the source of ActivationFailure signals, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (activation failure error returned) by l…
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
EPSS: 0.001 (25.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Freedesktop Dbus — versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.4
- Opensuse — versions 13.1, 13.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0300 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- DSA-3161 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- [oss-security] 20150209 CVE-2015-0245: denial of service in dbus >= 1.4 systemd activation (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- MDVSA-2015:176 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2015-0245?
- CVE-2015-0245 is a vulnerability in Freedesktop Dbus, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). Published 2015-02-13.
- Is CVE-2015-0245 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.