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dbus: denial of service

Package(s):dbus CVE #(s):CVE-2008-3834
Created:October 10, 2008 Updated:May 3, 2011
Description: From the CVE entry: The dbus_signature_validate function in the D-bus library (libdbus) before 1.2.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application abort) via a message containing a malformed signature, which triggers a failed assertion error.
Alerts:
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:008 2011-05-03
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0018-01 2010-01-07
CentOS CESA-2010:0018 2010-01-08
Mandriva MDVSA-2009:256 2009-10-06
CentOS CESA-2009:0008 2009-01-08
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:027 2008-12-09
Gentoo 200901-04 2009-01-11
Red Hat RHSA-2009:0008-01 2009-01-07
Debian DSA-1658-1 2008-10-22
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:213 2008-10-15
Ubuntu USN-653-1 2008-10-14
Fedora FEDORA-2008-8764 2008-10-09
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1418-1 2012-10-31
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