Bug 2506705 - CVE-2026-16730 dbus-broker: dbus-broker: session bus denial of service via EMFILE during peer setup [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-16730 dbus-broker: dbus-broker: session bus denial of service via EM...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dbus-broker
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
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Assignee: David Rheinsberg
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["0c912a6c-6a26-4eb9-8988-b...
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Blocks: CVE-2026-16730
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Reported: 2026-07-24 11:19 UTC by Ganesh
Modified: 2026-08-17 15:36 UTC (History)
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Description Ganesh 2026-07-24 11:19:52 UTC
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A flaw was found in dbus-broker. When the broker's file-descriptor table is exhausted, getsockopt(SO_PEERPIDFD) (and similarly accept-path failures) can return EMFILE/ENFILE. dbus-broker treats these as fatal errors and exits instead of refusing the new connection. A local user or Flatpak application in the same user session can open many dangling session-bus connections to trigger this condition, crashing the session bus and disrupting the desktop session.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:36:23 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.


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