D-Bus: Denial of service — GLSA 202007-46

A local Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in D-Bus.

Affected packages

sys-apps/dbus on all architectures
Affected versions < 1.12.18
Unaffected versions >= 1.12.18

Background

D-Bus is a message bus system which processes can use to talk to each other.

Description

D-Bus does not correctly dispose of old connections meaning that it is possible for D-Bus to hit a connection limit.

Impact

An attacker could cause a possible Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All D-Bus users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/dbus-1.12.18"
 

References

Release date
July 27, 2020

Latest revision
July 27, 2020: 1

Severity
normal

Exploitable
local

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