CVE-2014-3636: D-Bus Project D-Bus

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

D-Bus 1.3.0 through 1.6.x before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to (1) cause a denial of service (prevention of new connections and connection drop) by queuing the maximum number of file descriptors or (2) cause a denial of service (disconnect) via multiple messages that combine to have more than the allowed number of file descriptors for a single sendmsg call.

Affected products

• D-Bus Project D-Bus: up to and including 1.6.22
• Freedesktop Dbus: version 1.8.0 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.4 only; version 1.8.6 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only

Published 2014-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.