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USN-2425-1: DBus vulnerability

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USN-2425-1: DBus vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/18/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dbus
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libdbus-1-3

References

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