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authorSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2015-01-01 23:42:41 +0000
committerSimon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>2015-01-01 23:42:41 +0000
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-D-Bus 1.8.14 (UNRELEASED)
+D-Bus 1.8.14 (2015-01-05)
==
-...
+The “40lb of roofing nails” release.
+
+Security hardening:
+
+• Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment from uids other than
+ the uid of the dbus-daemon. If a system service installs unsafe
+ security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls
+ (such as CVE-2014-8148) then this prevents memory consumption and
+ possible privilege escalation via UpdateActivationEnvironment.
+
+ We believe that in practice, privilege escalation here is avoided
+ by dbus-daemon-launch-helper sanitizing its environment; but
+ it seems better to be safe.
+
+• Do not allow calls to UpdateActivationEnvironment or the Stats interface
+ on object paths other than /org/freedesktop/DBus. Some system services
+ install unsafe security policy rules that allow arbitrary method calls
+ to any destination, method and interface with a specified object path;
+ while less bad than allowing arbitrary method calls, these security
+ policies are still harmful, since dbus-daemon normally offers the
+ same API on all object paths and other system services might behave
+ similarly.
+
+Other fixes:
+
+• Add missing initialization so GetExtendedTcpTable doesn't crash on
+ Windows Vista SP0 (fd.o #77008, Илья А. Ткаченко)
D-Bus 1.8.12 (2014-11-24)
==