D-Bus: Denial of service An error condition can cause D-Bus to crash. dbus 2009-01-11 2009-01-11 240308 local 1.2.3-r1 1.2.3-r1

D-Bus is a daemon providing a framework for applications to communicate with one another.

schelte reported that the dbus_signature_validate() function can trigger a failed assertion when processing a message containing a malformed signature.

A local user could send a specially crafted message to the D-Bus daemon, leading to a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All D-Bus users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/dbus-1.2.3-r1"
CVE-2008-3834 rbu rbu rbu