CVE-2014-7824

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-11-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Freedesktop Dbus: 1.6.0, 1.6.2, 1.6.4, 1.6.6, 1.6.8, 1.6.10 (+13)
Mageia Project Mageia: 3, 4

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0457.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62603
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3099
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/10/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71012
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2425-1
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85105
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98576
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0457.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62603
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3099

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