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D-Bus "match_rule_equal()" Weakness Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA23373  
Release Date: 2006-12-14
Last Update: 2006-12-19

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:D-BUS 0.x
D-Bus 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2006-6107 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Kimmo Hämäläinen has reported a weakness in D-Bus, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

An error within the "match_rule_equal()" function can be exploited to disable the ability of other processes to receive messages by removing their matches from D-Bus.

The weakness is reported in versions prior to 1.0.2.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.2.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

Provided and/or discovered by:
Kimmo Hämäläinen

Changelog:
2006-12-19: Updated "Where" section.

Original Advisory:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

Other References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218055



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2 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. D-Bus "send_interface" Security Policy Bypass
2. D-BUS Session Bus Hijack Vulnerability


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