Debian 4.0 Critical: DSA-1599-1 DBus Local Elevation Of Privilege
debian
June 26, 2008
Havoc Pennington discovered that DBus, a simple interprocess messaging
system, performs insufficient validation of security policies, which
might allow local privilege escalation...
Topics Covered
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/...
PREVIOUS
NEXT
Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical
Topics Covered
Get the latest News and Insights
Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.
Related News
Powered By
Linux Security - Your source for Top Linux News, Advisories, HOWTOs and Feature Releases
QUICK LINKS
subscribe to newsletters!
Like staying secure? So do we.
Sign up for updates, tips, and alerts!