An assertion failure in dbus-daemon when a privileged Monitoring connection (dbus-monitor, busctl monitor, gdbus monitor or similar) is active, and a message from the bus driver cannot be delivered to a client connection due to <deny> rules or outgoing message quota. This is a denial of service if triggered maliciously by a local attacker

In other words, if a privileged user with control over the dbus-daemon is using the org.freedesktop.DBus.Monitoring interface to monitor message bus traffic, then an unprivileged user with the ability to connect to the same dbus-daemon can cause a dbus-daemon crash under some circumstances.

Vulnerable versions:

1.15.x before 1.15.6 1.14.x before 1.14.8 1.12.x before 1.12.28 most end-of-life versions since 1.9.x

Fixed versions:

all since 1.15.6 1.14.x since 1.14.8 1.12.x since 1.12.28

Not vulnerable: end-of-life versions 1.8.x or older do not contain the affected code path.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/issues/457 https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1908636.html

Last updated 25 August 2025

It was reported that when executing a program via "pkexec --user nonpriv program", the nonpriv session can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the terminal's input buffer, allowing privilege escalation.

Original bug report (contains reproducer):

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showbug.cgi?id=1299955

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Last updated 25 August 2025

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References: https://bugs.gentoo.org/showbug.cgi?id=496770 https://bugs.kde.org/showbug.cgi?id=328511 (okular)

Commit: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=58e04a08afee39370283c494ee2e4e392fd3b684

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