CVE-2022-42011

Publication date 10 October 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in D-Bus before 1.12.24, 1.13.x and 1.14.x before 1.14.4, and 1.15.x before 1.15.2. An authenticated attacker can cause dbus-daemon and other programs that use libdbus to crash when receiving a message where an array length is inconsistent with the size of the element type.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
dbus 23.04 lunar
Fixed 1.14.0-2ubuntu3
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 1.14.0-2ubuntu3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1.12.20-2ubuntu4.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.12.16-2ubuntu2.3
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.12.2-1ubuntu1.4
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.10.6-1ubuntu3.6+esm2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.6.18-0ubuntu4.5+esm3

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
dbus

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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