CVE-2014-3639 Denial of service in n/a
Local attackers can exhaust D-Bus connection resources by opening many incomplete connections, preventing legitimate users from connecting.
- 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
What is CVE-2014-3639?
CVE-2014-3639 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Opensuse, published on 22 Sep 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The dbus-daemon in D-Bus before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not properly close old connections, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incomplete connection consumption and prevention of new connections) via a large number of incomplete connections.
Weakness: CWE-399
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-3639?
It affects 3 products.
Products include D-Bus Project D-Bus, Freedesktop Dbus, Opensuse Opensuse.
How do I fix CVE-2014-3639?
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-2014-3639 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-3639 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Opensuse Opensuse
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3639, GHSA-wx34-7xqf-qpp4, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3639.