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CVE-2014-7824 json

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 (preve…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-7690

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 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • dbus Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.8.10-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7824

  • dbus Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7824

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • dbus-1 openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.10.12-2.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10517-1

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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-2014-7824 updated cvss 2.1

dbus: local denial of service via incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3636

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 dbus Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 dbus, dbus-x11, dbus-libs Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 dbus, dbus-x11, dbus-libs, dbus-tests
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/10/2 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugs.freedesktop.org https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85105 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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