Bug 1140527 (CVE-2014-3637) - CVE-2014-3637 dbus: denial of service by creating unkillable D-Bus connections
Summary: CVE-2014-3637 dbus: denial of service by creating unkillable D-Bus connections
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2014-3637
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 1142581 1142582 1142583
Blocks: 1140534
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-11 07:59 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2023-05-12 05:07 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-12-12 23:54:47 UTC
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
initial upstream patch 1 (5.87 KB, patch)
2014-09-11 08:36 UTC, Murray McAllister
no flags Details | Diff
initial upstream patch 2 (4.76 KB, patch)
2014-09-11 08:37 UTC, Murray McAllister
no flags Details | Diff
initial upstream patch 3 (8.21 KB, patch)
2014-09-11 08:39 UTC, Murray McAllister
no flags Details | Diff
initial upstream patch 4 (4.69 KB, patch)
2014-09-11 08:40 UTC, Murray McAllister
no flags Details | Diff

Description Murray McAllister 2014-09-11 07:59:12 UTC
D-Bus upstream reports:

""
By attaching the file descriptor of a D-Bus connection to a D-Bus
message and sending that message via the dbus-daemon, a malicious
process can create D-Bus connections that persist after the process that
created them has terminated. This exacerbates various patterns of
undesirable/abusive behaviour by making it impossible to terminate them
by killing processes.

This has been addressed by closing any connection that has incoming file
descriptors queued for deserialization for more than a configurable
timeout, defaulting to 2.5 minutes.
""

It is believed that versions 1.3.0 and later are affected.

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank D-Bus upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Alban Crequy as the original reporter.

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-09-11 08:36:47 UTC
Created attachment 936438 [details]
initial upstream patch 1

Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2014-09-11 08:37:59 UTC
Created attachment 936439 [details]
initial upstream patch 2

Comment 4 Murray McAllister 2014-09-11 08:39:26 UTC
Created attachment 936441 [details]
initial upstream patch 3

Comment 5 Murray McAllister 2014-09-11 08:40:48 UTC
Created attachment 936442 [details]
initial upstream patch 4

Comment 6 Murray McAllister 2014-09-17 05:12:20 UTC
Created dbus tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1142581]

Comment 7 Murray McAllister 2014-09-17 05:12:22 UTC
Created mingw-dbus tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1142582]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1142583]

Comment 8 Murray McAllister 2014-09-17 05:17:01 UTC
Public now:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/16/9

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2014-12-13 09:47:36 UTC
dbus-1.6.28-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2014-12-17 04:46:49 UTC
dbus-1.8.12-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2014-12-19 18:26:19 UTC
dbus-1.6.28-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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