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Gentoo: GLSA-200904-12 Normal: Wicd Information Disclosure Risk

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A vulnerability in Wicd on Gentoo systems may allow local attackers to access sensitive data. It is advisable to perform an upgrade for enhanced security.
A vulnerability in Wicd may allow for disclosure of sensitive information.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Wicd: Information disclosure Date: April 10, 2009 Bugs: #258596 ID: 200904-12

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability in Wicd may allow for disclosure of sensitive information.
Background ========= Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-misc/wicd < 1.5.9 >= 1.5.9
========== Tiziano Mueller of Gentoo discovered that the DBus configuration file for Wicd allows arbitrary users to own the org.wicd.daemon object.
Impact ===== A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receiv...

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