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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-3636: dbus security issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-3636: dbus security issues

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/22/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to (1) cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections and connection drop) by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors or (2) cause a denial of service (disconnect) via multiple messages that combine to have more than the allowed number of file descriptors for a single sendmsg call.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-dbus

References

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