CVE-2008-3834

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The dbus_signature_validate function in the D-bus library (libdbus) before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) via a message containing a malformed signature, which triggers a failed assertion error.

Affected products

Freedesktop Dbus: through 1.1.4; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+33)
Freedesktop Dbus1.0: rc1, rc2, rc3
Freedesktop Dbus1.1.0: all versions

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32127
http://secunia.com/advisories/32230
http://secunia.com/advisories/32281
http://secunia.com/advisories/32385
http://secunia.com/advisories/33396
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1658
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus#head-dad0dab297a44f1d7a3b1259cfc06b583fd6a88a
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:213
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0008.html

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