CVE-2014-3639

low
Published 2014-09-22 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

The dbus-daemon in D-Bus before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not properly close old connections, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incomplete connection consumption and prevention of new connections) via a large number of incomplete connections.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
12.3 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.8.8-1
sid Fixed 1.8.8-1
forky Fixed 1.8.8-1
bullseye Fixed 1.8.8-1
bookworm Fixed 1.8.8-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
d-bus_projectd-bus{"endIncluding":"1.6.22"}
freedesktopdbus1.6.0
freedesktopdbus1.6.2
freedesktopdbus1.6.4
freedesktopdbus1.6.6
freedesktopdbus1.6.8
freedesktopdbus1.6.10
freedesktopdbus1.6.12
freedesktopdbus1.6.14
freedesktopdbus1.6.16
freedesktopdbus1.6.18
freedesktopdbus1.6.20
freedesktopdbus1.8.0
freedesktopdbus1.8.2
freedesktopdbus1.8.4
freedesktopdbus1.8.6

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.