CVE-2014-7824

low
Published 2014-11-18 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
2.1
VIR risk
2.1

Description

D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.26, 1.8.x before 1.8.10, and 1.9.x before 1.9.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections and connection drop) by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-3636.1.

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-2014-7824

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.8.10-1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.8.10-1
debian debianforkyfixed1.8.10-1
debian debiansidfixed1.8.10-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.8.10-1
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.10affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
freedesktopdbus1.6.0
freedesktopdbus1.6.2
freedesktopdbus1.6.4
freedesktopdbus1.6.6
freedesktopdbus1.6.8
freedesktopdbus1.6.10
freedesktopdbus1.6.12
freedesktopdbus1.6.14
freedesktopdbus1.6.16
freedesktopdbus1.6.18
freedesktopdbus1.6.20
freedesktopdbus1.6.22
freedesktopdbus1.6.24
freedesktopdbus1.8.0
freedesktopdbus1.8.2
freedesktopdbus1.8.4
freedesktopdbus1.8.6
freedesktopdbus1.8.8
freedesktopdbus1.9.0

References

CWEs

CWE-399

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