CVE-2014-3638

Summary

CVECVE-2014-3638
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-09-22 15:55:00 UTC
Updated2023-12-27 16:36:00 UTC
DescriptionThe bus_connections_check_reply function in config-parser.c in D-Bus before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of method calls.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.0 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.10 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.12 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.14 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.16 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.18 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.2 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.20 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.4 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.6 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.8 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.8.0 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.8.2 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.8.4 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.8.6 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.0 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.10 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.12 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.14 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.16 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.18 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.2 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.20 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.4 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.6 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.6.8 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.8.0 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.8.2 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.8.4 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus 1.8.6 All All All
Application D-bus Project D-bus All All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.0 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.10 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.12 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.14 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.16 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.18 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.2 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.20 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.4 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.6 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.8 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.8.0 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.8.2 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.8.4 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.8.6 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.3 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
D-BUS Buffer Overflow and Multiple Processing Flaws Let Local Users Obtain Elevated Privileges and Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
USN-2352-1: DBus vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
oss-security - CVE-2014-3635 to 3639: security issues in D-Bus < 1.8.8 MLIST www.openwall.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:176 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
Security Advisory SA61431 - SUSE update for dbus-1 - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Bug 81053 – CVE-2014-3638: Flooding dbus-daemon with pending replies: denial of service CONFIRM bugs.freedesktop.org Patch
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3026-1 dbus DEBIAN www.debian.org
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0395 - Updated dbus packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities CONFIRM advisories.mageia.org
Security Advisory SA61378 - Debian update for dbus - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2014:1146-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org
openSUSE-SU-2014:1239-1: moderate: dbus-1: update to 1.6.24 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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