Debian DSA-3161-1 : dbus - security update

low Nessus Plugin ID 81302

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Synopsis

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

Description

Simon McVittie discovered a local denial of service flaw in dbus, an asynchronous inter-process communication system. On systems with systemd-style service activation, dbus-daemon does not prevent forged ActivationFailure messages from non-root processes. A malicious local user could use this flaw to trick dbus-daemon into thinking that systemd failed to activate a system service, resulting in an error reply back to the requester.

Solution

Upgrade the dbus packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.8-1+deb7u6.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 81302

File Name: debian_DSA-3161.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/12/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, 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: 2/11/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-0245

BID: 72545

DSA: 3161

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