CVE-2013-2168: Freedesktop Dbus

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound function in dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.4.x before 1.4.26, 1.6.x before 1.6.12, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (service crash) via a crafted message.

Affected products

• Freedesktop Dbus: version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.1 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.6 only; version 1.4.8 only; version 1.4.10 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only

Published 2013-07-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.