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SUSE 11 SP3: 2014:1146-1 Important: dbus-1 Denial Of Service Fix

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2014
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SUSE Security Alert: A crucial update for dbus-1 addressing denial of service vulnerabilities has been released for several product lines.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

Various denial of service issues were fixed in the DBUS service. * CVE-2014-3638: dbus-daemon tracks whether method call messages expect a reply, so that unsolicited replies can be dropped. As currently implemented, if there are n parallel method calls in progress, each method reply takes O(n) CPU time. A malicious user could exploit this by opening the maximum allowed number of parallel connections and sending the maximum number of parallel method calls on each one, causing subsequent method calls to be unreasonably slow, a denial of service. * CVE-2014-3639: dbus-daemon allows a small number of "incomplete" connections (64 by default) whose identity has not yet been confirmed. When this limit has been reached, subsequent connections are dropped. Alban's testing indicates that one malicious process

References

#896453

Cross- CVE-2014-3638

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-3638.html

https://scc.suse.com:443/patches/

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2014:1146-1
Rating: important

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