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Debian DSA-1658-1: Moderate Denial of Service Vulnerability in dbus

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Calendar Grey October 22, 2008
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Mitigation for service disruption in dbus on Debian DSA-1658-2. Detailed upgrade guidelines provided. Maintain security!
Colin Walters discovered that the dbus_signature_validate function in dbus, a simple interprocess messaging system, is prone to a denial of service attack.
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Summary


For the testing distribution (lenny) and unstable distribution (sid)
this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your dbus package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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 automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 824 476bb3df500c50f67b4088317482e0ef
Size/MD5 checksum: 19909 27df2fd0bc5cb93069d6c10d89e0214a
Size/MD5 checksum: 1400278 0552a9b54beb4a044951b7cdbc8fc855

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1623126 68e4e1787515928f95af670ec2677663

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD...

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