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CVE-2014-3533

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-3533 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in D-Bus versions 1.3.0 through 1.6.21 and 1.8.x through 1.8.5, affecting products like Debian, freedesktop, Mageia, and openSUSE. A local attacker can trigger this by sending a specific sequence of crafted messages, causing the dbus-daemon to forward a message with an invalid file descriptor, leading to a disconnect. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial availability loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:freedesktop:dbus:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 61st percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: dbus
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: dbus
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: dbus

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-3533Moderate

dbus: denial of service when forwarding invalid file descriptors

Jul 2, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0294.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00049.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/07/02/4
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
bugs.freedesktop.org / show_bug.cgi
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/59611
secunia.com / advisories/59798
secunia.com / advisories/60236
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2971
mandriva.com / security/advisories
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html