CVE-2014-3639: D-Bus Project D-Bus

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dbus-daemon in D-Bus before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 does not properly close old connections, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (incomplete connection consumption and prevention of new connections) via a large number of incomplete connections.

Affected products

• D-Bus Project D-Bus: up to and including 1.6.22
• Freedesktop Dbus: version 1.6.0 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 1.6.4 only; version 1.6.6 only; version 1.6.8 only; version 1.6.10 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only

Published 2014-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.