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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200904-12">
+ <title>Wicd: Information disclosure</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A vulnerability in Wicd may allow for disclosure of sensitive information.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">wicd</product>
+ <announced>2009-04-10</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2009-04-10</revised>
+ <bug>258596</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-misc/wicd" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.5.9</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.5.9</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Tiziano Mueller of Gentoo discovered that the DBus configuration file
+ for Wicd allows arbitrary users to own the org.wicd.daemon object.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receive messages
+ that were intended for the Wicd daemon, possibly including credentials
+ e.g. for wireless networks.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/wicd-1.5.9"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0489">CVE-2009-0489</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2009-04-08T22:52:50Z">
+ rbu
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2009-04-09T11:29:45Z">
+ keytoaster
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2009-04-09T21:59:43Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>