Input validation error in D-Bus - CVE-2014-3477
Published: July 1, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41508
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3477
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
The dbus-daemon in D-Bus 1.2.x through 1.4.x, 1.6.x before 1.6.20, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4, sends an AccessDenied error to the service instead of a client when the client is prohibited from accessing the service, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (initialization failure and exit) or possibly conduct a side-channel attack via a D-Bus message to an inactive service.
Affected software
D-Bus
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
mingw-dbus
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
mingw-dbus
How to mitigate CVE-2014-3477
Install update from vendor's website.
mingw-dbus - addressed in versions 1.8.12-1.el7, 1.8.12-1.fc21
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0266.html
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.8&id=24c590703ca47eb71ddef453de43126b90954567
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-06/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/509
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59428
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59611
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59798
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2971
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67986
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78979