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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2707-1 (dbus - denial of service)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Alexandru Cornea discovered a vulnerability in libdbus caused by an implementation bug in _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound(). This vulnerability can be exploited by a local user to crash system services that use libdbus, causing denial of service. Depending on the dbus services running, it could lead to complete system crash. The oldstable distribution (squeeze) is not affected by this problem.
Affected Software
Affected Software
dbus on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.8-1+deb7u1. For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.12-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.12-1. We recommend that you upgrade your dbus packages.