CVE-2014-3638

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The bus_connections_check_reply function in config-parser.c in D-Bus before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of method calls.

Affected products

D-Bus Project D-Bus: through 1.6.22
Freedesktop Dbus: 1.6.0, 1.6.2, 1.6.4, 1.6.6, 1.6.8, 1.6.10 (+9)
Opensuse: 12.3

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61378
http://secunia.com/advisories/61431
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3026
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030864
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2352-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81053
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.html

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