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Debian 4.0 Critical: DSA-1599-1 DBus Local Elevation Of Privilege

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2008
Scroller Debian
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Havoc Pennington discovered that DBus, a simple interprocess messaging system, performs insufficient validation of security policies, which might allow local privilege escalation...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.20-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dbus packages.

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

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1400278 0552a9b54beb4a044951b7cdbc8fc855
Size/MD5 checksum: 816 17ae5277bdf58c57ae3cf0d313c7c24d
Size/MD5 checksum: 19612 a2b0de5bea28219d5e287f6074d7e705

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 1538936 73d480306098e6b0f24062021706ace9

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/...

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