CVE-2009-0489 Information

Description

The DBus configuration file for Wicd before 1.5.9 allows arbitrary users to own org.wicd.daemon which allows local users to receive messages that were intended for the Wicd daemon possibly including credentials.

Reference

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/trunk/revision/222 http://secunia.com/advisories/33870 http://secunia.com/advisories/34685 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-12.xml http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=194573&release_id=659059 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/06/4