Vulnerability CVE-2014-7824
Published: 2014-11-18

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
D-Bus denial of service via incomplete fix
Simon McVittie
10.11.2014

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Mageia project -> Mageia 
Debian -> Debian linux 
D-bus project -> D-bus 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0457.html
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
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