Denial of Service Vulnerability in D-Bus 1.3.0 to 1.6.22 and 1.8.x to 1.8.6

CVE-2014-3532 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

dbus 1.3.0 before 1.6.22 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6, when running on Linux 2.6.37-rc4 or later, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system-bus disconnect of other services or applications) by sending a message containing a file descriptor, then exceeding the maximum recursion depth before the initial message is forwarded.

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