CVE-2010-4352

Exp

Stack consumption vulnerability in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a message containing many nested variants.

Published: 2010-12-30 Last update: 2026-04-29 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2010-4352 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Low severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.14%). Core evidence: 5 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2010-4352

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2010-4352

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 0.15% 0.14% -0.02%
2 2025-03-29 0.14% 0.15% +0.02%
3 2025-03-17 0.14%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2010-4352

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2010-4352

OS Trackers for CVE-2010-4352

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2010-4352 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (dbus), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4352
gentoo normal CVE-2010-4352: 1 GLSA(s) (201110-14), 1 atom(s) (sys-apps/dbus); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2010-4352
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4352
suse low CVE-2010-4352 severity low: SUSE including 86 source package names (dbus-1-1.10.12-2.1, dbus-1-1.12.2-1.76, …), 117 product×package rows across 31 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (31 product lines)): Fixed 117. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4352/
ubuntu medium CVE-2010-4352 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (dbus), 6 status rows across 6 suites (dapper, hardy, karmic, lucid, maverick, upstream): released 5, ignored 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-4352

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2010-4352

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
d-bus_project d-bus <= 1.4.0 cpe:2.3:a:d-bus_project:d-bus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2010-4352

URL Tags
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/commit/?id=7d65a3a6ed8815e34a99c680ac3869fde49dbbd4 Patch
http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-December/052550.html Exploit Patch
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/3 Exploit Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/16/6 Exploit Patch
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/21/3
http://secunia.com/advisories/42580 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42760 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42911
http://secunia.com/advisories/42960
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2149
http://www.remlab.net/op/dbus-variant-recursion.shtml Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45377
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1044-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3325 Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0161
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0178
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0464
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32321 Exploit Patch
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663673 Exploit Patch
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