Resource Management Errors Affecting d-bus package, versions [,1.6.24)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DBUS-2371876
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Oct 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-3636  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade d-bus to version 1.6.24 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to (1) cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections and connection drop) by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors or (2) cause a denial of service (disconnect) via multiple messages that combine to have more than the allowed number of file descriptors for a single sendmsg call.

CVSS Scores

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