National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3834
Original release date:10/07/2008
Last revised:03/03/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The dbus_signature_validate function in the D-bus library (libdbus) before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) via a message containing a malformed signature, which triggers a failed assertion error.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-8764
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-3834
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17803
External Source: XF
Name: dbus-dbusvalidatesignaturewithreason-dos(45701)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-653-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021063
External Source: BID
Name: 31602
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0008
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 7822
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:213
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2762
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus#head-dad0dab297a44f1d7a3b1259cfc06b583fd6a88a
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1658
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33396
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32385
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32281
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32230
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 32127
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2008:027