CVE-2014-3636

low
Published 2014-10-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
1.9
VIR risk
1.9

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3636

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82820

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.8.8-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.8.8-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.8.8-1
debian debiansidfixed1.8.8-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.8.8-1
suse suse12.3affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
d-bus_projectd-bus{"endIncluding":"1.6.22"}
freedesktopdbus1.8.0
freedesktopdbus1.8.2
freedesktopdbus1.8.4
freedesktopdbus1.8.6

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.