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CVE-2010-4352 json

Stack consumption vulnerability in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a messa…

published 2010-12-30 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-4321

cvss
2.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 47%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Stack consumption vulnerability in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a message containing many nested variants.

Patch / fix

  • dbus Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.24-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4352

  • dbus RHEL 5 1.1.2-15.el5_6
  • dbus RHEL 6 1:1.2.24-4.el6_0
  • dbus-x11 RHEL 5 1.1.2-15.el5_6
  • dbus-x11 RHEL 6 1:1.2.24-4.el6_0
  • dbus-libs RHEL 5 1.1.2-15.el5_6
  • dbus-libs RHEL 6 1:1.2.24-4.el6_0

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:0376

  • dbus-1 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.10.12-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10517-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-4352 updated cvss 2.1

D-BUS: Stack overflow by validating message with excessive number of nested variants

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) dbus 1.1.2-15.el5_6, dbus-x11 1.1.2-15.el5_6, dbus-libs 1.1.2-15.el5_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) dbus 1.1.2-15.el5_6, dbus-x11 1.1.2-15.el5_6, dbus-libs 1.1.2-15.el5_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) dbus 1.2.24-4.el6_0, dbus-x11 1.2.24-4.el6_0, dbus-libs 1.2.24-4.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) dbus 1.2.24-4.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) dbus 1.1.2-15.el5_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) dbus 1.2.24-4.el6_0, dbus-x11 1.2.24-4.el6_0, dbus-libs 1.2.24-4.el6_0
    +5 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) dbus 1.2.24-4.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) dbus 1.2.24-4.el6_0, dbus-x11 1.2.24-4.el6_0, dbus-libs 1.2.24-4.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) dbus 1.2.24-4.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) dbus 1.2.24-4.el6_0, dbus-x11 1.2.24-4.el6_0, dbus-libs 1.2.24-4.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) dbus 1.2.24-4.el6_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:0376
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 dbus
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 47% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052550.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • openwall.com http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/3 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663673 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugs.freedesktop.org https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32321 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • openwall.com http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/6 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

References

Sources

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