CVE-2014-3533 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-3533?

CVE-2014-3533 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 19 Jul 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

dbus 1.3.0 before 1.6.22 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (disconnect) via a certain sequence of crafted messages that cause the dbus-daemon to forward a message containing an invalid file descriptor.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3533?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Freedesktop Dbus, Mageia Project Mageia, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2014-3533?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-3533 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3533 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3533, GHSA-gf7v-52mw-wwh2, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3533.