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D-Bus "match_rule_equal()" Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA23373
Release Date: 2006-12-14
Last Update: 2006-12-19
Popularity: 8,447 views

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

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

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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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.

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