SuSE 11 Security Update : dbus (SAT Patch Number 726)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 41382

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The dbus package used a too permissive configuration. Therefore intended access control for some services was not applied.
(CVE-2008-4311)

The new configuration denies access by default. Some dbus services may break due to this setting and need an updated configuration as well.

With the previous update wireless networking didn't work anymore on some machines due to stale files in /var/run/dbus/at_console. The dbus init script now cleans up that directory on boot.

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 726.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443307

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486267

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4311.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 41382

File Name: suse_11_dbus-1-090402.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2009

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: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:dbus-1, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:dbus-1-32bit

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/2/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4311

CWE: 16