USN-1874-1: DBus vulnerability

Details

Alexandru Cornea discovered that DBus incorrectly handled certain messages.
A local attacker could use this issue to cause system services to crash,
resulting in a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.04

• libdbus-1-3 - 1.6.8-1ubuntu6.1

Ubuntu 12.10

• libdbus-1-3 - 1.6.4-1ubuntu4.1

Ubuntu 12.04

• libdbus-1-3 - 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.4

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2013-2168