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authorAlex Legler <alex@a3li.li>2015-03-08 22:02:38 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201308-02">
+ <title>D-Bus: Denial of Service</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in D-Bus which allows a local user
+ to cause a Denial of Service.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">d-bus</product>
+ <announced>August 22, 2013</announced>
+ <revised>August 22, 2013: 1</revised>
+ <bug>473190</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/dbus" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.6.12</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.12</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>D-Bus is a message bus system which processes can use to talk to each
+ other.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>D-Bus’ _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound() function crashes if it
+ returns exactly 1024 bytes.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>A local attacker could provide specially-crafted input to an application
+ using D-Bus which would cause _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound() to return
+ 1024 bytes and crash, causing 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-1.6.12"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-2168">
+ CVE-2013-2168
+ </uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:19:11 +0000">
+ creffett
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:34:55 +0000">
+ creffett
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>