<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!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>2015-03-07</announced> <revised>2015-03-07: 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 ">=sys-apps/dbus-1.8.16" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0245">CVE-2015-0245</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-02-25T04:08:15Z"> BlueKnight </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2015-03-07T08:59:46Z">Zlogene</metadata> </glsa>