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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.