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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="202012-17">
+ <title>D-Bus: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>A local Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in D-Bus.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">dbus</product>
+ <announced>2020-12-23</announced>
+ <revised count="1">2020-12-23</revised>
+ <bug>755392</bug>
+ <access>local</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="sys-apps/dbus" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">1.12.20</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">1.12.20</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>It was discovered that D-Bus did not properly handle the situation when
+ two usernames have the same numeric UID.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="low">
+ <p>An attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or
+ trigger other undefined behavior, possibly including incorrect
+ authorization decisions.
+ </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-1.12.20"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ftp-release/2020-July/000758.html">
+ dbus 1.12.20 security update announcement
+ </uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2020-12-23T00:47:59Z">whissi</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2020-12-23T19:54:00Z">whissi</metadata>
+</glsa>