CVE-2022-42010 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 6.5 Published Updated

An authenticated attacker can crash D-Bus daemon and libdbus users by sending messages with invalid type signatures.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-42010?

CVE-2022-42010 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 9 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 1.12.24, 1.13.x and 1.14.x before 1.14.4, and 1.15.x before 1.15.2. An authenticated attacker can cause dbus-daemon and other programs that use libdbus to crash when receiving a message with certain invalid type signatures.

Weakness: CWE-347

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42010?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Freedesktop Dbus.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42010?

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-2022-42010 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42010 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2022-42010, AZL-11091, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42010, GHSA-mmv5-g2hf-r8cf, JLSEC-2025-19, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-42010.

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