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USN-653-1: D-Bus vulnerabilities

14 October 2008

D-Bus vulnerabilities

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Details

Havoc Pennington discovered that the D-Bus daemon did not correctly
validate certain security policies. If a local user sent a specially
crafted D-Bus request, they could bypass security policies that had a
"send_interface" defined. (CVE-2008-0595)

It was discovered that the D-Bus library did not correctly validate
certain corrupted signatures. If a local user sent a specially crafted
D-Bus request, they could crash applications linked against the D-Bus
library, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2008-3834)

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 6.06

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to
effect the necessary changes.