Security Advisory SA33870 - Wicd D-Bus Configuration Information Disclosure Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA33870

Wicd D-Bus Configuration Information Disclosure Security Issue

Secunia Advisory

SA33870

Release Date

2009-02-09

Last Update

2009-02-11

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of sensitive information

Where

Local system

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Solution Status

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Software:

Wicd 1.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2009-0489 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in Wicd, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to the application's D-Bus configuration file allowing unrestricted access to the org.wicd.daemon object. This can be exploited to read Wicd messages and potentially disclose e.g. wireless network credentials.

The security issue issue is reported in versions prior to 1.5.9.

Solution
Update to version 1.5.9.

Provided and/or discovered by
Tiziano Mueller, Gentoo

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/06/4
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/trunk/revision/222

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