VDB
GHSA-8qh5-rr38-7xjm
GHSA-8qh5-rr38-7xjm
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 17, 2022
The _dbus_header_byteswap function in dbus-marshal-header.c in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28, 1.4.x before 1.4.12, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 does not properly handle a non-native byte order, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (connection loss), obtain potentially sensitive information, or conduct unspecified state-modification attacks via crafted messages.
Risk scores
CVSS 4.0
7
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Timeline
- May 17, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38120 url
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.4 url
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2007-March/007357.html url
- http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2011-May/014408.html url
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/13/12 url
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1132.html url
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2200 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712676 url
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67974 url
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.4&id=c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7 url
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/12/1 url
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/12/2 url
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629938 url
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.2&id=6519a1f77c61d753d4c97efd6e15630eb275336e url
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.2 url
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 url
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44896 url