RHSA-2022:8812 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: dbus security update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · December 6, 2022
Updated · June 25, 2026
Topic
An update for dbus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Description
D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.
Security Fix(es):
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dbus: dbus-daemon crashes when receiving message with incorrectly nested parentheses and curly brackets (CVE-2022-42010)
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dbus: dbus-daemon can be crashed by messages with array length inconsistent with element type (CVE-2022-42011)
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dbus:
_dbus_marshal_byteswapdoesn't process fds in messages with "foreign" endianness correctly (CVE-2022-42012)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.