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CVE-2008-0595

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 4.6 · Incorrect authorization
4.6CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-February/009401.html ↗