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TITLE:
network-manager-applet nm-connection-editor D-Bus Information
Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37819

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37819/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in network-manager-applet, which
can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain knowledge of
sensitive information.

The security issue is caused due to nm-connection-editor publishing
certain information via D-Bus (e.g. the password of a WiFi network)
when editing a network connection, which can be exploited by
monitoring the D-Bus signals.

The security issue is reported in all 0.7.x versions.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the Git repository.
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=8627880e07c8345f69ed639325280c7f62a8f894
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=56d87fcb86acb5359558e0a2ee702cfc0c3391f2

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Dan Williams, Red Hat

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=8627880e07c8345f69ed639325280c7f62a8f894
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/network-manager-applet/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_APPLET_0_7&id=56d87fcb86acb5359558e0a2ee702cfc0c3391f2

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