CVE-2008-0595

Medium

Description

dbus-daemon in D-Bus before 1.0.3, and 1.1.x before 1.1.20, recognizes send_interface attributes in allow directives in the security policy only for fully qualified method calls, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via a method call with a NULL interface.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.6
Exploit probability—
ProductFreedesktop Dbus
PublishedFeb 29, 2008
First seenFeb 29, 2008

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
freedesktop dbusv < 1.0.3, 1.1.0 ≤ v < 1.1.201.0.3, 1.1.20
fedoraproject fedora7—
mandrakesoft mandrake_linux2007, 2007.0_x86_64, 2007.1, 2008.0—
redhat enterprise_linux5, 5.0—

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