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CVE-2008-0595 dbus-daemon in D-Bus before 1.0.3, and 1.1.x before 1.1.20, recognizes send_interface attributes in allow directives in the security policy only for fully qualified method calls, which allows local us...

MediumCVSS 4.6 EPSS 0.40%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

dbus-daemon in D-Bus before 1.0.3, and 1.1.x before 1.1.20, recognizes send_interface attributes in allow directives in the security policy only for fully qualified method calls, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a method call with a NULL interface.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
fedoraproject fedora = 7 No fix listed
mandrakesoft mandrake linux = 2007 No fix listed
mandrakesoft mandrake linux = 2007.0_x86_64 No fix listed
mandrakesoft mandrake linux = 2007.1 No fix listed
mandrakesoft mandrake linux = 2008.0 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux = 5 No fix listed
redhat enterprise linux = 5.0 No fix listed
freedesktop dbus < 1.0.3 1.0.3
freedesktop dbus >= 1.1.0, < 1.1.20 1.1.20
debian/dbus(Debian:12) < 1.1.20-1 1.1.20-1
debian/dbus(Debian:13) < 1.1.20-1 1.1.20-1
debian/dbus(Debian:14) < 1.1.20-1 1.1.20-1

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