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CentOS Update for dbus CESA-2012:1261 centos6
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update for the 'dbus' package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used for the system-wide message bus service and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility. It was discovered that the D-Bus library honored environment settings even when running with elevated privileges. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges, by setting specific environment variables before running a setuid or setgid application linked against the D-Bus library (libdbus). (CVE-2012-3524) Note: With this update, libdbus ignores environment variables when used by setuid or setgid applications. The environment is not ignored when an application gains privileges via file system capabilities. However, no application shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 gains privileges via file system capabilities. Red Hat would like to thank Sebastian Krahmer of the SUSE Security Team for reporting this issue. All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For the update to take effect, all running instances of dbus-daemon and all running applications using the libdbus library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.
Affected Software
Affected Software
dbus on CentOS 6
Solution
Solution
Please install the updated packages.