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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2026-128987 EUVD-2026-125774GHSA-4734-9v83-3gjc

Dbus: infinite cpu-spin loop in libdbus socket transport when epipe is received during write operations

Published Nov 13, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in dbus. A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability by connecting to an affected service, requesting a response, and stopping socket reads while keeping the connection open. Because the socket transport handles broken pipe write errors as retryable, the application enters a continuous retry loop. This can lead to excessive CPU consumption, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) for the target process.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 dbus No fix yet —
Debian 13 dbus No fix yet —
Debian 12 dbus No fix yet —

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