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Debian DSA-2149-1 : dbus - denial of service

low Nessus Plugin ID 51588

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Remi Denis-Courmont discovered that dbus, a message bus application, is not properly limiting the nesting level when examining messages with extensive nested variants. This allows an attacker to crash the dbus system daemon due to a call stack overflow via crafted messages.

Solution

Upgrade the dbus packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-5+lenny2.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2149

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 51588

File Name: debian_DSA-2149.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/21/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:dbus, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/20/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4352

BID: 45377

DSA: 2149