CVE-2015-0245

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-02-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

D-Bus 1.4.x through 1.6.x before 1.6.30, 1.8.x before 1.8.16, and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not validate the source of ActivationFailure signals, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (activation failure error returned) by leveraging a race condition involving sending an ActivationFailure signal before systemd responds.

Affected products

Freedesktop Dbus: 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.4, 1.4.6, 1.4.8, 1.4.10 (+42)
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0071.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00066.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3161
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/6
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0071.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00066.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3161
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/6
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

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