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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2015-02-09 11:06:32 +0000
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2015-02-09 11:06:32 +0000
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Merge branch '1.8-cve-2015-0245' into cve-2015-0245
Conflicts: NEWS bus/system.conf.in configure.ac
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D-Bus 1.9.10 (UNRELEASED)
==
+The “sad cyborgs” release.
+
+Security fixes:
+
+• Do not allow non-uid-0 processes to send forged ActivationFailure
+ messages. On Linux systems with systemd activation, this would
+ allow a local denial of service: unprivileged processes could
+ flood the bus with these forged messages, winning the race with
+ the actual service activation and causing an error reply
+ to be sent back when service auto-activation was requested.
+ This does not prevent the real service from being started,
+ so it only works while the real service is not running.
+ (CVE-2015-0245, fd.o #88811; Simon McVittie)
+
Enhancements:
• The new Monitoring interface in the dbus-daemon lets dbus-monitor and
@@ -22,7 +36,7 @@ Enhancements:
or libpcap-compatible framing treating each D-Bus message
as a captured packet. (fd.o #46787, Simon)
-Fixes:
+Other fixes:
• Fix some CMake build regressions (fd.o #88964, Ralf Habacker)