Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in D-Bus, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
D-Bus "send_interface" Security Policy Bypass
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29148
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29148/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
D-Bus 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12896/
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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