USN-2425-1

It was discovered that DBus incorrectly handled a large number of file descriptor messages. A local attacker could use this issue to cause DBus to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2014-7824)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / dbus

Package

Name: dbus
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/dbus@1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3

Affected versions

1.*

1.6.12-0ubuntu10

1.6.18-0ubuntu1

1.6.18-0ubuntu2

1.6.18-0ubuntu3

1.6.18-0ubuntu4

1.6.18-0ubuntu4.1

1.6.18-0ubuntu4.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "dbus",
            "binary_version": "1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "dbus-x11",
            "binary_version": "1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libdbus-1-3",
            "binary_version": "1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libdbus-1-dev",
            "binary_version": "1.6.18-0ubuntu4.3"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2014-7824",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}