CVE-2014-3532

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-07-02
Bugzilla:
1114414: CVE-2014-3532 dbus: denial of service in file descriptor passing feature

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

dbus 1.3.0 before 1.6.22 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6, when running on Linux 2.6.37-rc4 or later, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system-bus disconnect of other services or applications) by sending a message containing a file descriptor, then exceeding the maximum recursion depth before the initial message is forwarded.

Find out more about CVE-2014-3532 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 2.1
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dbus Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dbus Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dbus Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank D-Bus upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Alban Crequy of Collabora Ltd. as the original reporter.

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