{"id":"MGASA-2014-0395","summary":"Updated dbus packages fix multiple security vulnerabilities","details":"Updated dbus packages fixes the following security issues:\n\nAlban Crequy and Simon McVittie discovered several vulnerabilities in the\nD-Bus message daemon:\n\nOn 64-bit platforms, file descriptor passing could be abused by local users\nto cause heap corruption in dbus-daemon, leading to a crash, or potentially\nto arbitrary code execution (CVE-2014-3635).\n\nA denial-of-service vulnerability in dbus-daemon allowed local attackers to\nprevent new connections to dbus-daemon, or disconnect existing clients, by\nexhausting descriptor limits (CVE-2014-3636).\n\nMalicious local users could create D-Bus connections to dbus-daemon which\ncould not be terminated by killing the participating processes, resulting\nin a denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2014-3637).\n\ndbus-daemon suffered from a denial-of-service vulnerability in the code\nwhich tracks which messages expect a reply, allowing local attackers to\nreduce the performance of dbus-daemon (CVE-2014-3638).\n\ndbus-daemon did not properly reject malicious connections from local users,\nresulting in a denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2014-3639).\n","modified":"2026-02-04T02:39:43.074583Z","published":"2014-10-07T09:22:51Z","related":["CVE-2014-3635","CVE-2014-3636","CVE-2014-3637","CVE-2014-3638","CVE-2014-3639"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14102"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3026"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"dbus","ecosystem":"Mageia:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/dbus?arch=source&distro=mageia-3"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.6.8-4.5.mga3"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.json"}},{"package":{"name":"dbus","ecosystem":"Mageia:4","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/dbus?arch=source&distro=mageia-4"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.6.18-1.4.mga4"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0395.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}