# CVE-2014-3636: Denial of service in n/a

> Local attackers can cause denial of service in D-Bus by exhausting file descriptor limits, affecting system stability.

- **Severity:** Low 1.9 (`AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 25 Oct 2014
- **Updated:** 17 Oct 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3636, GHSA-vh38-h8j6-grqm, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3636

## What is CVE-2014-3636?

CVE-2014-3636 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 25 Oct 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-399

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3636?

It affects 3 products.


Products: D-Bus Project D-Bus, Freedesktop Dbus, Opensuse Opensuse.

## How do I fix CVE-2014-3636?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2014-3636 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3636 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse

- [CVE-2011-2200](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2011-2200/): Denial of service in n/a (medium 4.6)
- [CVE-2014-3635](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3635/): Memory corruption in n/a (medium 4.4)
- [CVE-2014-3477](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3477/): Denial of service in n/a (medium 4.0)
- [CVE-2014-3638](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3638/): Denial of service in n/a (low 2.1)
- [CVE-2014-3639](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3639/): Denial of service in n/a (low 2.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-3636 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2014-3636 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 25 Oct 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3636 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Opensuse Opensuse. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3636/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3636/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3636
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3636
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-3636

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3636/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.