CVE-2014-3477
dbus: denial of service flaw in dbus-daemon
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
Review impact separately from score.
Published · June 10, 2014
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
The dbus-daemon in D-Bus 1.2.x through 1.4.x, 1.6.x before 1.6.20, and 1.8.x before 1.8.4, sends an AccessDenied error to the service instead of a client when the client is prohibited from accessing the service, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (initialization failure and exit) or possibly conduct a side-channel attack via a D-Bus message to an inactive service.
Statement
This issue affect the dbus package in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact, a future update my address this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. This issue is not planned to be fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 3.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
CWE not specified