metadata/glsa/glsa-201503-02.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201503-02">
  <title>D-Bus: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in D-Bus, possibly resulting in
    local Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">dbus</product>
  <announced>March 07, 2015</announced>
  <revised>March 07, 2015: 1</revised>
  <bug>539482</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/dbus" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.8.16</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.8.16</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to
      one another.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>D-Bus doesn’t validate the source of ActivationFailure signals.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All D-Bus users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=sys-apps/dbus-1.8.16"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0245">CVE-2015-0245</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 25 Feb 2015 04:08:15 +0000">
    BlueKnight
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 07 Mar 2015 08:59:46 +0000">Zlogene</metadata>
</glsa>