Race condition in dbus - CVE-2015-0245
Published: February 13, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32439
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0245
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
D-Bus 1.4.x through 1.6.x before 1.6.30, 1.8.x before 1.8.16, and 1.9.x before 1.9.10 does not validate the source of ActivationFailure signals, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (activation failure error returned) by leveraging a race condition involving sending an ActivationFailure signal before systemd responds.
Affected software
dbus
Gentoo Linux
dbus (Alpine package)
Gentoo Linux
dbus (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2015-0245
Install update from vendor's website.
dbus - addressed in versions 1.6.30, 1.8.16, 1.9.10
dbus (Alpine package) - update to 1.6.30-r0
dbus (Alpine package) - update to 1.6.30-r0
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0071.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00066.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3161
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/09/6
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html