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TITLE:
D-Bus "match_rule_equal()" Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23373

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23373/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
D-BUS 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4599/
D-Bus 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/12896/

DESCRIPTION:
Kimmo Hämäläinen has reported a weakness in D-Bus, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to cause a  DoS (Denial of
Service).

An error within the "match_rule_equal()" function can be exploited to
disable the ability of other processes to receive messages by removing
their matches from D-Bus.

The weakness is reported in versions prior to 1.0.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.2.
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Kimmo Hämäläinen

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus

OTHER REFERENCES:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218055

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