CVE-2009-0578

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-0578
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-03-05 02:30:00 UTC
Updated2017-09-29 01:33:00 UTC
DescriptionGNOME NetworkManager before 0.7.0.99 does not properly verify privileges for dbus (1) modify and (2) delete requests, which allows local users to change or remove the network connections of arbitrary users via unspecified vectors related to org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings and at_console.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.10 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 8.10 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
487752 – (CVE-2009-0578) CVE-2009-0578 NetworkManager: local users can modify the connection settings CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:009 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: dbus-1 (SUSE-SA:2009:013 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
USN-727-1: network-manager-applet vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory
GNOME NetworkManager Lets Local Users Modify Network Configuration Settings. - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Red Hat update for NetworkManager - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
NetworkManager D-Bus Request Restriction Security Issues - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
NetworkManager Permission Enforcement Multiple Local Vulnrabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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