Vulnerability CVE-2008-3834
Published: 2008-10-07   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The dbus_signature_validate function in the D-bus library (libdbus) before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) via a message containing a malformed signature, which triggers a failed assertion error.

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
Freedesktop -> DBUS 
Freedesktop -> Dbus1.0 
Freedesktop -> Dbus1.1.0 

 References:
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10253
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1658
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus#head-dad0dab297a44f1d7a3b1259cfc06b583fd6a88a
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:213
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/7822
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0008.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31602
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021063
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-653-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2762
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45701
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17803
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3834
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00298.html
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