CVE-2014-7824
Description
D-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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 14.10 | Affected | — |
| 14.04 | Affected | — |
| 12.04 | Affected | — |
Debian Mixed 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.8.10-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.8.10-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.8.10-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.8.10-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.8.10-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.0 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.2 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.4 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.6 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.8 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.10 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.12 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.14 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.16 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.18 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.20 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.22 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.6.24 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.8.0 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.8.2 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.8.4 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.8.6 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.8.8 | |
| freedesktop | dbus | 1.9.0 | |
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0457.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62603
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3099
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/10/2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71012
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2425-1
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85105
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98576
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7824
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.