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D-BUS Session Bus Hijack Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA14119
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Release Date:
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2005-02-03
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Hijacking
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Where:
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Local system
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | D-BUS 0.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0201 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
Daniel Reed has reported a vulnerability in D-BUS, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to hijack a session bus.
The problem is that a malicious user can connect to another user's session bus. This can be exploited using dbus-send by specifying the bus address in the "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" environment variable.
Solution:
The vulnerability has been fixed in the CVS repository.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Daniel Reed
Original Advisory:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2436
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1 Related Secunia Security Advisories
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1. D-Bus "match_rule_equal()" Weakness
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