Description
D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to (1) cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections and connection drop) by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors or (2) cause a denial of service (disconnect) via multiple messages that combine to have more than the allowed number of file descriptors for a single sendmsg call.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2352-1 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61378 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030864 ↗
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82820 ↗
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.html ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3026 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176 ↗