<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201308-02"> <title>D-Bus: Denial of service</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in D-Bus which allows a local user to cause a Denial of Service. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">d-bus</product> <announced>2013-08-22</announced> <revised count="1">2013-08-22</revised> <bug>473190</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="sys-apps/dbus" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">1.6.12</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">1.6.12</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>D-Bus is a message bus system which processes can use to talk to each other. </p> </background> <description> <p>D-Bus’ _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound() function crashes if it returns exactly 1024 bytes. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A local attacker could provide specially-crafted input to an application using D-Bus which would cause _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound() to return 1024 bytes and crash, causing a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All D-Bus users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.12" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-2168"> CVE-2013-2168 </uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-07-12T01:19:11Z"> creffett </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-08-22T15:34:55Z"> creffett </metadata> </glsa>