<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200904-12"> <title>Wicd: Information disclosure</title> <synopsis> A vulnerability in Wicd may allow for disclosure of sensitive information. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">wicd</product> <announced>April 10, 2009</announced> <revised>April 10, 2009: 01</revised> <bug>258596</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="net-misc/wicd" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.5.9</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.9</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux. </p> </background> <description> <p> Tiziano Mueller of Gentoo discovered that the DBus configuration file for Wicd allows arbitrary users to own the org.wicd.daemon object. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receive messages that were intended for the Wicd daemon, possibly including credentials e.g. for wireless networks. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wicd-1.5.9"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0489">CVE-2009-0489</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:52:50 +0000"> rbu </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:29:45 +0000"> keytoaster </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:59:43 +0000"> p-y </metadata> </glsa>