Vulnerability CVE-2008-4311
Published: 2008-12-09   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The default configuration of system.conf in D-Bus (aka DBus) before 1.2.6 omits the send_type attribute in certain rules, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions by (1) sending messages, related to send_requested_reply; and possibly (2) receiving messages, related to receive_requested_reply.

Type:

CWE-16

 (Configuration)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Freedesktop -> DBUS 

 References:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00436.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474895
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18229
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47138
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3355
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32674
http://secunia.com/advisories/34642
http://secunia.com/advisories/34360
http://secunia.com/advisories/33055
http://secunia.com/advisories/33047
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-10/msg00094.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00003.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2008-December/010702.html
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206797
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503532
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