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@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ D-Bus 1.9.2 (UNRELEASED)
The “structurally unsound flapjack” release.
+Security fixes:
+
+• Increase dbus-daemon's RLIMIT_NOFILE rlimit to 65536
+ so that CVE-2014-3636 part A cannot exhaust the system bus'
+ file descriptors, completing the incomplete fix in 1.8.8.
+ (CVE-2014-7824, fd.o #85105; Simon McVittie, Alban Crequy)
+
Enhancements:
• D-Bus Specification version 0.25