D-BUS: Stack overflow by validating message with excessive number of nested variants
Published Dec 30, 2010
2.1
LOWCVSS 2.0
EPSS 0.58%
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a message containing many nested variants.
Affected products
No data.
- ≤ 1.4.0
No data.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
dbus-0:1.1.2-15.el5_6
Fixed · RHSA-2011:0376
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
dbus-1:1.2.24-4.el6_0
Fixed · RHSA-2011:0376
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
dbus
Not affected
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | dbus-0:1.1.2-15.el5_6 | Fixed | RHSA-2011:0376 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | dbus-1:1.2.24-4.el6_0 | Fixed | RHSA-2011:0376 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | dbus | Not affected | n/a |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (10 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 0.58% (0.00580) | 45.66th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 0.58% (0.00580) | 42.92th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.14% (0.00137) | 31.07th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00044) | 11.89th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 2, 2024 | 0.04% (0.00044) | 10.25th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00044) | 8.24th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 1.55% (0.01547) | 74.98th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 23, 2023 | 1.55% (0.01547) | 74.94th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 1.55% (0.01547) | 72.92th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 1.55% (0.01547) | 51.82th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (25)
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?id=7d65a3a6ed8815e34a99c680ac3869fde49dbbd4 x_refsource_CONFIRMPatch
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052550.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAExploitPatch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00004.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploitPatch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/6 mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploitPatch
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/21/3 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42580 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42760 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42911 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42960 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2149 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.remlab.net/op/dbus-variant-recursion.shtml x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45377 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1044-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3325 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0161 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0178 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0464 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4352 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32321 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663673 x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitPatchIssue Tracking
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4352
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4352
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