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CVE-2008-3834

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3834 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the D-Bus library (libdbus) versions prior to 1.2.4, affecting freedesktop dbus and dbus1.x. Remote attackers can trigger an application abort by sending a message with a malformed signature, leading to a failed assertion error. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a partial availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or inclusion in the KEV catalog, a proof-of-concept exploit exists on ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-7822 · Jan 19, 2009
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0462 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: dbus-0:1.0.0-7.el5_2.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-3834Moderate

dbus denial of service

Sep 27, 2008

References

kb.juniper.net / InfoCenter/index
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/32127
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32230
secunia.com / advisories/32281
secunia.com / advisories/32385
secunia.com / advisories/33396
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45701
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10253
exploit-db.com / exploits/7822
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00298.html
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1658
freedesktop.org / wiki/Software/dbus
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-0008.html
securityfocus.com / bid/31602
securitytracker.com / id
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-653-1
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2762