Debian Security Advisory
DLA-1818-1 dbus -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 14 Jun 2019
- Affected Packages:
- dbus
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 930375.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-12749. - More information:
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Joe Vennix discovered an authentication bypass vulnerability in dbus, an asynchronous inter-process communication system. The implementation of the DBUS_COOKIE_SHA1 authentication mechanism was susceptible to a symbolic link attack. A local attacker could take advantage of this flaw to bypass authentication and connect to a DBusServer with elevated privileges.
For Debian 8
Jessie
, this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.22-0+deb8u2.We recommend that you upgrade your dbus packages.
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