Resource management error in dbus - CVE-2010-4352

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

Stack consumption vulnerability in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a message containing many nested variants.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2010-4352

External References

• http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?id=7d65a3a6ed8815e34a99c680ac3869fde49dbbd4
• http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052550.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/3
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/6
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/21/3
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42580
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42760
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42911
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42960
• http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2149
• http://www.remlab.net/op/dbus-variant-recursion.shtml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45377
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1044-1
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3325
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0161
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0178
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0464
• https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32321
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663673

Related Security Bulletins

• Resource management error in Freedesktop dbus
• Resource management error in dbus (Alpine package)
• Gentoo update for D-Bus