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dbus: privilege escalation
| Package(s): | dbus | CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-0595 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | February 28, 2008 | Updated: | June 27, 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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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