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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