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 leveraging a race condition involving sending an ActivationFailure signal before systemd responds.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 1.9 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (19.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 20th percentile — 19.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Freedesktop Dbus — versions 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.4
- openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00066.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3161 (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/6 (mailing-list)
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0071.html
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
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.