Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1658-1 dbus -- programming error
- Date Reported:
- 22 Oct 2008
- Affected Packages:
- dbus
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 501443.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-3834. - More information:
-
Colin Walters discovered that the dbus_signature_validate function in dbus, a simple interprocess messaging system, is prone to a denial of service attack.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1+etch2.
For the testing distribution (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your dbus package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2.diff.gz
- 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+etch2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-doc_1.0.2-1+etch2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus_1.0.2-1+etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-dev_1.0.2-1+etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/libdbus-1-3_1.0.2-1+etch2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/d/dbus/dbus-1-utils_1.0.2-1+etch2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.