Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1599-1 dbus -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 26 Jun 2008
- Affected Packages:
- dbus
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-0595.
- More information:
-
Havoc Pennington discovered that DBus, a simple interprocess messaging system, performs insufficient validation of security policies, which might allow local privilege escalation.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.20-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your dbus packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-doc_1.0.2-1+etch1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.