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Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0057 (dbus-glib)

From:  Mageia Updates <buildsystem-daemon@mageia.org>
To:  updates-announce@ml.mageia.org
Subject:  [updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0057: dbus-glib-0.96-1.1.mga2 (2/core)
Date:  Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:59:12 +0100
Message-ID:  <20130217005912.GA12364@valstar.mageia.org>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

MGASA-2013-0057 Date: February 17th, 2013 Affected releases: 2 Media: Core Description: Updated dbus-glib packages fix security vulnerability: A privilege escalation flaw was found in the way dbus-glib, the D-Bus add-on library to integrate the standard D-Bus library with the GLib thread abstraction and main loop, performed filtering of the message sender (message source subject), when the NameOwnerChanged signal was received. A local attacker could use this flaw to escalate their privileges (CVE-2013-0292). Updated Packages: i586: libdbus-glib-0.96-1.1.mga2.i586.rpm libdbus-glib1_2-0.96-1.1.mga2.i586.rpm dbus-glib-debug-0.96-1.1.mga2.i586.rpm x86_64: lib64dbus-glib-0.96-1.1.mga2.x86_64.rpm lib64dbus-glib1_2-0.96-1.1.mga2.x86_64.rpm dbus-glib-debug-0.96-1.1.mga2.x86_64.rpm SRPMS: dbus-glib-0.96-1.1.mga2.src.rpm References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0292 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=911658 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9087 https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-...


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