<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201110-14"> <title>D-Bus: Multiple vulnerabilities</title> <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were found in D-Bus, the worst of which allowing for a symlink attack. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">D-Bus</product> <announced>2011-10-21</announced> <revised count="1">2011-10-21</revised> <bug>348766</bug> <bug>371261</bug> <bug>372743</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="sys-apps/dbus" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.4.12</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.4.12</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to each other. </p> </background> <description> <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in D-Bus. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>The vulnerabilities allow for local Denial of Service (daemon crash), or arbitrary file overwriting. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All D-Bus users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/dbus-1.4.12" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-4352">CVE-2010-4352</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2200">CVE-2011-2200</uri> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-2533">CVE-2011-2533</uri> </references> <metadata timestamp="2011-10-07T23:37:28Z" tag="requester"> underling </metadata> <metadata timestamp="2011-10-21T21:15:45Z" tag="submitter">craig</metadata> </glsa>