D-Bus Lets Local Users Gain Elevated Privileges
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1025720 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1025720
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2011-2533
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jun 28 2011
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Impact:
User access via local system
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): prior to 1.2.28
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in D-Bus. A local user can obtain elevated privileges on the target system.
A local user can able to create a symbolic link (symlink) from a temporary file in the '/tmp' directory to a critical file on the target system. Then, when the target user compiles D-Bus, the symlinked file may be created or overwritten with the privileges of the target user.
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Impact:
A local user may be able to obtain elevated privileges on the target system when the target user compiles D-Bus.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (1.2.28).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/tree/NEWS?h=dbus-1.2
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Vendor URL: www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error, State error
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Underlying OS:
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:16:32 +0000
Subject: DBus
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CVE-2011-2533
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