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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-177

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-177
Posted Jun 25, 2013
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-177 - Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability. Alexandru Cornea discovered a vulnerability in libdbus caused by an implementation bug in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound(). This vulnerability can be exploited by a local user to crash system services that use libdbus, causing denial of service. Depending on the dbus services running, it could lead to complete system crash.

tags | advisory, denial of service, local
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2013-2168
SHA-256 | ed69c941247755b87316d8236dd675a2060fc54bc73a88d694ef3c9461b2a491

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-177

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2013:177
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : dbus
Date : June 25, 2013
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:

Updated dbus packages fix security vulnerability.

Alexandru Cornea discovered a vulnerability in libdbus caused by
an implementation bug in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound(). This
vulnerability can be exploited by a local user to crash system
services that use libdbus, causing denial of service. Depending on
the dbus services running, it could lead to complete system crash
(CVE-2013-2168).
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2168
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0173.html
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
6e569daec73e8128d62aadac32337dfc mbs1/x86_64/dbus-1.4.16-6.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
5b6e72fdacad1b24d5cb87446e56ab68 mbs1/x86_64/dbus-doc-1.4.16-6.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
ccbba9375dd7c6e355797c6215501780 mbs1/x86_64/dbus-x11-1.4.16-6.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
89e5be95e460251ac2de05bcf523cf84 mbs1/x86_64/lib64dbus-1_3-1.4.16-6.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
e2883a10a4c5c0b45b07aa1ed66a6dba mbs1/x86_64/lib64dbus-1-devel-1.4.16-6.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
6305ba23e81d096a3081db88a3904a5d mbs1/SRPMS/dbus-1.4.16-6.2.mbs1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/advisories/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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