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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201308-02">
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<title>D-Bus: Denial of service</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in D-Bus which allows a local user
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to cause a Denial of Service.
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</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">d-bus</product>
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<announced>2013-08-22</announced>
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<revised count="1">2013-08-22</revised>
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<bug>473190</bug>
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<access>local</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="sys-apps/dbus" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">1.6.12</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">1.6.12</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>D-Bus is a message bus system which processes can use to talk to each
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other.
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</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>D-Bus’ _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound() function crashes if it
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returns exactly 1024 bytes.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>A local attacker could provide specially-crafted input to an application
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using D-Bus which would cause _dbus_printf_string_upper_bound() to return
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1024 bytes and crash, causing a Denial of Service condition.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All D-Bus users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/dbus-1.6.12"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-2168">
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CVE-2013-2168
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</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2013-07-12T01:19:11Z">
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creffett
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</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2013-08-22T15:34:55Z">
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creffett
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</metadata>
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</glsa>
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