[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200904-12 ] Wicd: Information disclosure

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-12

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: Wicd: Information disclosure

Date: April 10, 2009

Bugs: #258596

ID: 200904-12

 

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Synopsis

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A vulnerability in Wicd may allow for disclosure of sensitive

information.

 

Background

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Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 net-misc/wicd < 1.5.9 >= 1.5.9

 

Description

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Tiziano Mueller of Gentoo discovered that the DBus configuration file

for Wicd allows arbitrary users to own the org.wicd.daemon object.

 

Impact

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A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to receive messages

that were intended for the Wicd daemon, possibly including credentials

e.g. for wireless networks.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Wicd users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/wicd-1.5.9"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2009-0489

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0489

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-12.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2009 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5