CVE-2014-7824

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-7824
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-11-18 15:59:04 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionD-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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 2.1 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 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 1.6.22 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.6.24 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
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.8.8 All All All
Application Freedesktop Dbus 1.9.0 All All All
Operating System Mageia Project Mageia 3 All All All
Operating System Mageia Project Mageia 4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:176 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
USN-2425-1: DBus vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3099-1 dbus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0457 - Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerabilitiy af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org
Bug 85105 – CVE-2014-7824: increase file descriptor limit to avoid DoS (incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3636) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.freedesktop.org Exploit
Security Advisory SA62603 - SUSE update for dbus-1 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
D-Bus CVE-2014-7824 Incomplete Fix Denial of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
oss-security - CVE-2014-7824: D-Bus denial of service via incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3636 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Exploit
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