CVE-2014-3636
lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.005 · 43 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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affected products (7)
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references (24)
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- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.8Patchcnnvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61378cnnvd
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3026cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69834cnnvd
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82820cnnvd
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.htmlenisa_euvd
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