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TITLE:
Wicd D-Bus Configuration Information Disclosure Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA33870

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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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