CVE-2011-2200

Published: Jun 22, 2011Updated: Apr 29, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-20

4.6MEDIUM

NVD MITRE

Description

The _dbus_header_byteswap function in dbus-marshal-header.c in D-Bus (aka DBus) 1.2.x before 1.2.28, 1.4.x before 1.4.12, and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 does not properly handle a non-native byte order, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (connection loss), obtain potentially sensitive information, or conduct unspecified state-modification attacks via crafted messages.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:LAccess Vector

Local

AC:LAccess Complexity

Low

Au:NAuthentication

None

Impact

C:PConfidentiality

Partial

I:PIntegrity

Partial

A:PAvailability

Partial

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

freedesktop

oss-projectaka freedesktop.org

dbus

OSS Libraries

d-bus project

oss-projectaka freedesktop

d-busLibrary

OSS Libraries / generic-library

Gentoo Foundation Inc.

oss-project·US

Gentoo LinuxOn-premOS

Operating Systems / linux-distro

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Exploitability

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References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629938

bugs.debian.org

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.2&id=6519a1f77c61d753d4c97efd6e15630eb275336e

cgit.freedesktop.org

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?h=dbus-1.4&id=c3223ba6c401ba81df1305851312a47c485e6cd7

cgit.freedesktop.org

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