CVE-2014-7824

Publication date 18 November 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dbus 14.10 utopic
Fixed 1.8.8-1ubuntu2.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.7
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

also should include regression fix for CVE-2014-3639: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86431

Patch details

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Package Patch details
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