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Scientific Linux: dbus Security Advisory CVE-2008-3834 Moderate DoS

Calendar Jan 07, 2009 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory denial of service moderate severity dbus scientific linux
Moderate: dbus security update 
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:40:33 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for dbus on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Synopsis:	Moderate: dbus security update
Issue date:	2009-01-07
CVE Names:	CVE-2008-3834

A denial-of-service flaw was discovered in the system for sending messages
between applications. A local user could send a message with a malformed
signature to the bus causing the bus (and, consequently, any process using
libdbus to receive messages) to abort. (CVE-2008-3834)

SL 5.x

 SRPMS:
dbus-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.src.rpm
 i386:
dbus-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
dbus-devel-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
dbus-x11-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
dbus-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
dbus-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
dbus-devel-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.i386.rpm
dbus-devel-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm
dbus-x11-1.0.0-7.el5_2.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson