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dbus: privilege escalation

Package(s):dbus CVE #(s):CVE-2008-0595
Created:February 28, 2008 Updated:October 14, 2008
Description: From the Red Hat alert: Havoc Pennington discovered a flaw in the way the dbus-daemon applies its security policy. A user with the ability to connect to the dbus-daemon may be able to execute certain method calls they should normally not have permission to access.
Alerts:
Ubuntu USN-653-1 2008-10-14
Debian DSA-1599-1 2008-06-26
rPath rPSA-2008-0099-1 2008-03-07
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2043 2008-02-28
Red Hat RHSA-2008:0159-01 2008-02-27
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:006 2008-03-14
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:054 2007-02-28
Fedora FEDORA-2008-2070 2008-02-28
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