Secunia Security Advisory - A security issue has been reported in Wicd, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Wicd D-Bus Configuration Information Disclosure Security Issue
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33870
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/33870/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information
WHERE:
Local system
SOFTWARE:
Wicd 1.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/21347/
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
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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