USN-401-1: D-Bus vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06
• Ubuntu 5.10

Details

Kimmo Hämäläinen discovered that local users could delete other users'
D-Bus match rules. Applications would stop receiving D-Bus messages,
resulting in a local denial of service, and potential data loss for
applications that depended on D-Bus for storing information.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.10

• dbus - 0.93-0ubuntu3.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• dbus - 0.60-6ubuntu8.1

Ubuntu 5.10

• dbus - 0.36.2-0ubuntu7.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to
effect the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2006-6107