CVE-2008-4311 Information

Description

The default configuration of system.conf in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.2.6 omits the send_type attribute in certain rules which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by (1) sending messages related to send_requested_reply; and possibly (2) receiving messages related to receive_requested_reply.

Reference

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503532 http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206797 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-December/010702.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33047 http://secunia.com/advisories/33055 http://secunia.com/advisories/34360 http://secunia.com/advisories/34642 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32674 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3355 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18229 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474895 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47138 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00436.html