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Debian DSA-1599-1 : dbus - programming error

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33367

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Havoc Pennington discovered that DBus, a simple interprocess messaging system, performs insufficient validation of security policies, which might allow local privilege escalation.

Solution

Upgrade the dbus packages.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.2-1+etch1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1599

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33367

File Name: debian_DSA-1599.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/2/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dbus

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0595

BID: 28023

CWE: 264

DSA: 1599