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<glsa id="201706-05">
  <title>D-Bus: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities in D-Bus might allow an attacker to
    overwrite files with a fixed filename in arbitrary directories or conduct a
    symlink attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">dbus</product>
  <announced>2017-06-06</announced>
  <revised count="1">2017-06-06</revised>
  <bug>611392</bug>
  <access>local, remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="sys-apps/dbus" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">1.10.18</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">1.10.18</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>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in D-Bus. Please review
      the original report referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>An attacker could possibly overwrite arbitrary files named “once”
      with content not controlled by the attacker.
    </p>
    
    <p>A local attacker could perform a symlink attack against D-Bus’ test
      suite.
    </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 "&gt;=sys-apps/dbus-1.10.18"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/16/4">
      Original report
    </uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-05-21T07:09:05Z">BlueKnight</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-06-06T08:33:43Z">whissi</metadata>
</glsa>
