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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.10.2014.0457
Category:Mageia Linux Local Security Checks
Title:Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2014-0457)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'dbus' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2014-0457 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'dbus' package(s) announced via the MGASA-2014-0457 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
The patch issued by the D-Bus maintainers for CVE-2014-3636 was based on
incorrect reasoning, and does not fully prevent the attack described as
'CVE-2014-3636 part A', which is repeated below. Preventing that attack
requires raising the system dbus-daemon's RLIMIT_NOFILE (ulimit -n) to
a higher value.

By queuing up the maximum allowed number of fds, a malicious sender
could reach the system dbus-daemon's RLIMIT_NOFILE (ulimit -n, typically
1024 on Linux). This would act as a denial of service in two ways:

* new clients would be unable to connect to the dbus-daemon
* when receiving a subsequent message from a non-malicious client that
contained a fd, dbus-daemon would receive the MSG_CTRUNC flag,
indicating that the list of fds was truncated, kernel fd-passing APIs
do not provide any way to recover from that, so dbus-daemon responds
to MSG_CTRUNC by disconnecting the sender, causing denial of service
to that sender.

This update resolves the issue (CVE-2014-7824).

Also default auth_timeout that was changed from 30s to 5s in MGASA-2014-0395,
and raised to 20s in MGAA-2014-0182 is now changed back to 30s as there
still are reports about failing dbus connections.

Affected Software/OS:
'dbus' package(s) on Mageia 3, Mageia 4.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
2.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-7824
BugTraq ID: 71012
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71012
Debian Security Information: DSA-3099 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3099
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:176
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/10/2
http://secunia.com/advisories/62603
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2425-1
XForce ISS Database: dbus-cve20147824-dos(98576)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98576
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