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Debian: DSA-1955-1 Critical: Network-Manager Information Disclosure

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2009
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Uncover the specifics surrounding Debian Security Advisory DSA-1955-1, which addresses a vulnerability in network-manager that could lead to information leakage.
It was discovered that network-manager-applet, a network management framework, lacks some dbus restriction rules, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information

Summary

If you have locally modified the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf
file, then please make sure that you merge the changes from this fix
when asked during upgrade.


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.6-4+lenny1 of network-manager-applet.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.4-6+etch1 of network-manager.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.7.0.99-1 of
network-manager-applet.


We recommend that you upgrade your network-manager and
network-manager-applet packages accordingly.


Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an autom...

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