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RHEL 5 : dbus (RHSA-2008:0159)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31308

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated dbus packages that fix an issue with circumventing the security policy are now available.

This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.

Havoc Pennington discovered a flaw in the way the dbus-daemon applies its security policy. A user with the ability to connect to the dbus-daemon may be able to execute certain method calls they should normally not have permission to access. (CVE-2008-0595)

Red Hat does not ship any applications in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 that would allow a user to leverage this flaw to elevate their privileges.

This flaw does not affect the version of D-Bus shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

All users are advised to upgrade to these updated dbus packages, which contain a backported patch and are not vulnerable to this issue.

Solution

Update the affected dbus, dbus-devel and / or dbus-x11 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2008-0595

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0159

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31308

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2008-0159.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/28/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dbus-x11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0595

BID: 28023

CWE: 264

RHSA: 2008:0159