D-BUS Session Bus Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:12435

Info

D-BUS Session Bus Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 12435
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2005-0201
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Feb 03 2005 12:00AM
Updated: Mar 06 2007 09:55PM
Credit: Daniel Reed <[email protected]> is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: Redhat Fedora Core3
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 4
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 4
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 4
Redhat Desktop 4.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1
MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0 x86_64
MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 3.0
D-BUS Inter-Process Communication System 0.23
D-BUS Inter-Process Communication System 0.22
+ Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ppc
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia64
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia64
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia32
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia32
 D-BUS Inter-Process Communication System 0.21
D-BUS Inter-Process Communication System 0.20
D-BUS Inter-Process Communication System 0.13
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

D-BUS Session Bus Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A local privilege-escalation vulnerability affects D-BUS because it fails to properly secure message-bus sessions.

An attacker may leverage this issue to send messages to the message bus of an unsuspecting user. This may facilitate command execution with the privileges of the unsuspecting user, ultimately leading to privilege escalation.

Exploit / POC

D-BUS Session Bus Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An exploit is not required.

Solution / Fix

D-BUS Session Bus Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has updated the CVS version of the affected software. A source patch is also available. Please see the references for more information.


D-BUS Inter-Process Communication System 0.22

References

D-BUS Session Bus Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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