Gentoo: GLSA-200901-04 Normal: D-Bus Denial of Service Vulnerability

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200901-04 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: D-Bus: Denial of Service Date: January 11, 2009 Bugs: #240308 ID: 200901-04

Synopsis ======= An error condition can cause D-Bus to crash.
Background ========= D-Bus is a daemon providing a framework for applications to communicate with one another.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 sys-apps/dbus < 1.2.3-r1 >= 1.2.3-r1
========== schelte reported that the dbus_signature_validate() function can trigger a failed assertion when processing a message containing a malformed signature.
Impact ===== A local user could send a specially crafted message to ...