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D-BUS Session Bus Hijack Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA14119
Release Date: 2005-02-03
Popularity: 7,918 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Hijacking
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:D-BUS 0.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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.

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