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dbus: denial of service

Package(s):dbus CVE #(s):CVE-2010-4352
Created:December 27, 2010 Updated:May 3, 2011
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A stack overflow flaw was found in the way the D-BUS message bus service / messaging facility validated messages with excessive number of nested variants. A local, authenticated user could use this flaw to cause dbus daemon to crash (denial of service) via a specially-crafted message sent to the system bus.

Alerts:
Gentoo 201110-14 2011-10-21
CentOS CESA-2011:0376 2011-04-14
Fedora FEDORA-2010-19178 2010-12-22
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:008 2011-05-03
Red Hat RHSA-2011:0376-01 2011-03-22
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0401-1 2011-04-28
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:004 2011-02-22
Pardus 2011-30 2011-02-12
Ubuntu USN-1044-1 2011-01-18
Debian DSA-2149-1 2011-01-20
Fedora FEDORA-2010-19166 2010-12-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1418-1 2012-10-31

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