Security Advisory SA40908 - dbus-glib D-Bus GLib Bindings Property Access Security Bypass

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Secunia Advisory SA40908

dbus-glib D-Bus GLib Bindings Property Access Security Bypass

Secunia Advisory

SA40908

Release Date

2010-08-11

Last Update

2011-04-07

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

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Software:

dbus-glib D-Bus GLib Bindings 0.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2010-1172 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in dbus-glib D-Bus GLib Bindings, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security features.

The security issue is caused due to the library not properly honoring property access specifications, which can be exploited to e.g. modify exported properties, although they are intended to be read only.

Solution
Update to version 0.88 or later. Applications using the library may have to be rebuilt using a patched version of the library.
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Red Hat

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Original Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585394
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-glib/commit/?h=rhel5&id=9a6bce9b615abca6068348c1606ba8eaf13d9ae0

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