Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-3532

Title: Freedesktop Dbus Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-3532.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Jul 19, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.12%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-3532: 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.

Impacted Vendors

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0294.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/02/4 http://secunia.com/advisories/59611 http://secunia.com/advisories/59798 http://secunia.com/advisories/60236 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2971 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80163 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0294.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/02/4 http://secunia.com/advisories/59611 http://secunia.com/advisories/59798 http://secunia.com/advisories/60236 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2971 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80163

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-3532 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 19, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.