Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-7824

Title: Freedesktop Dbus Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-7824.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Nov 18, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 2.1 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-7824: 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.

Impacted Vendors

freedesktop 1

Reference Links

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 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

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-2014-7824 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.

November 18, 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.