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D-Bus "send_interface" Security Policy Bypass
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA29148
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Release Date:
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2008-02-28
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Security Bypass
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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 1.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2008-0595 (Secunia mirror)
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Description:
A security issue has been reported in D-Bus, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.
The security issue is caused due to an error in the processing of messages with a NULL interface, which can be exploited to bypass security policy directives of the form "<allow send_interface= [interface]/>".
The security issue is reported in versions prior to 1.1.20 or 1.0.3.
Solution:
Update to version 1.1.20 or 1.0.3.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Havoc Pennington
Original Advisory:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-February/009401.html
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