[ubuntu/precise-updates] dbus 1.4.18-1ubuntu1.7 (Accepted)

Ubuntu Archive Robot cjwatson+ubuntu-archive-robot at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Thu Nov 27 15:58:30 UTC 2014


dbus (1.4.18-1ubuntu1.7) precise-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: denial of service via large number of fds
    - debian/patches/CVE-2014-7824.patch: raise rlimit and restore it for
      activated services in bus/activation.c, bus/bus.*,
      dbus/dbus-sysdeps-util-unix.c, dbus/dbus-sysdeps-util-win.c,
      dbus/dbus-sysdeps.h.
    - debian/dbus.init: don't launch daemon as a user so the rlimit can be
      raised.
    - CVE-2014-7824
  * SECURITY REGRESSION: authentication timeout on certain slower systems
    - debian/patches/CVE-2014-3639-regression.patch: raise auth_timeout
      back up to 30 secs in bus/config-parser.c, add a warning to
      bus/connection.c.
    - CVE-2014-3639

Date: 2014-11-25 20:27:58.203835+00:00
Changed-By: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at canonical.com>
Signed-By: Ubuntu Archive Robot <cjwatson+ubuntu-archive-robot at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/1.4.18-1ubuntu1.7
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