Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-3636

Title: Freedesktop Dbus Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-3636.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Oct 25, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 1.9 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.10%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-3636: 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.

Impacted Vendors

D
d-bus 1
F
freedesktop 1
D
d-bus_project 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html http://secunia.com/advisories/61378 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3026 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030864 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2352-1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82820 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html http://secunia.com/advisories/61378 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3026 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030864 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2352-1 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82820
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity LOW
1.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-3636 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.